>>>>> "Stavros" == Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu> writes:
Stavros> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Edwin Woollett <woollett at charter.net> wrote:
Stavros> True, Maxima stupidly fails on integrate(1/(1+sqrt(x)),x,0,1),
Stavros> but?integrate(ratsimp(1/(1+sqrt(x))),x,0,1), algebraic:true does work....
Yes, as mentioned in a different thread, the cause is a failure in
poles-in-interval to determine that there are no poles in the
interval. Setting intanalysis:false allows maxima to correctly return
2-2*log(2);
Ray