Subject: expanding and comparing symbolic integrals
From: Stavros Macrakis
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 09:25:17 -0400
They are only equal if the individual integrals are convergent. Consider
f(x)=1/x and g(x)= - 1/x from 0 to 1.
You can do
declare(integrate,linear)
if you know that this will not cause you problems.
-s
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 09:20, Joseph Cusumano <jpc3 at psu.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone.
>
> If I define something like
>
> F1:integrate(a*f(x)+b*g(x),x,c,d);
> F2:a*integrate(f(x),x,c,d)+b*integrate(g(x),x,c,d);
>
> These clearly are equal, but how do I get Maxima to recognize this? In
> general, how can I expand F1 to get F2?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe Cusumano
>
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