integrate(log(1+(1+x**2)**0.5), x) -> incorrect result
Subject: integrate(log(1+(1+x**2)**0.5), x) -> incorrect result
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:44:08 -0500
Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com
> <mailto:toy.raymond at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> > integrate(log(1+(1+x**2)**(1/2)), x)
>
> Maxima can't compute the integral completely by itself, unfortunately,
> but it does get close:
>
>
> Clever, Ray! Just to make this easy for new users, here's the
> explicit transcript:
Not nearly as clever as you! I did most of the work by hand. I didn't
know that ratsimp with algebraic would rationalize the denominator.
I wonder if that's a rule that we can add to integrate: try to
rationalize denominators.
Ray