Subject: Constant of integration (Was Re: sqrt(x)*sqrt(x))
From: Rupert Swarbrick
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:23:08 +0000
Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> writes:
> Why is this important? Does any other CAS do that? No table of
> integrals I know of does this. I vaguely remember it being mentioned in
> high school calculus, but I don't think we were expected to answer every
> integration question with a + C term added.
Depressingly, secondary schools in Britain have that on the
syllabus. One extra mark if you write "+ c". More depressingly, the
undergraduate maths students I teach never understood why.
Rupert
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