On 11/21/2012 11:58 PM, Raymond Toy wrote:
> Stavros> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Edwin Woollett <woollett at charter.net> wrote:
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> 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);
>
It would be nice that before returning a noun form integrate() tried
setting intanalysis:false or algebraic:true.
Jaime