On Mon, 04 May 2009 20:13:53 -0700, Richard Fateman
<fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>Before you post this a third time, in a hard-to-read form,
Sorry for this thing.
>let's see..
>theta=arcsin(a*x^2+b*x+c) and
>y=integrate(tan(theta),x,0,x).
>
>so you need to compute
>integrate((a*x^2+b*x+c)/sqrt(1-(a*x^2+b*x+c)^2),x)
>
>which is expressible in terms of elliptic functions, but not by the
>current version of Maxima.
Thanks for your help.
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