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changeset 66024:3134f8c4aa7b
(Integration): Mention using `a i' to compute definite integrals.
| author | Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com> |
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| date | Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:43:00 +0000 |
| parents | 06892c426dff |
| children | ea29286f548c |
| files | man/calc.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/calc.texi Tue Oct 11 19:41:48 2005 +0000 +++ b/man/calc.texi Tue Oct 11 19:43:00 2005 +0000 @@ -23506,11 +23506,11 @@ @tindex integ The @kbd{a i} (@code{calc-integral}) [@code{integ}] command computes the indefinite integral of the expression on the top of the stack with -respect to a variable. The integrator is not guaranteed to work for -all integrable functions, but it is able to integrate several large -classes of formulas. In particular, any polynomial or rational function -(a polynomial divided by a polynomial) is acceptable. (Rational functions -don't have to be in explicit quotient form, however; +respect to a prompted-for variable. The integrator is not guaranteed to +work for all integrable functions, but it is able to integrate several +large classes of formulas. In particular, any polynomial or rational +function (a polynomial divided by a polynomial) is acceptable. +(Rational functions don't have to be in explicit quotient form, however; @texline @math{x/(1+x^{-2})} @infoline @expr{x/(1+x^-2)} is not strictly a quotient of polynomials, but it is equivalent to @@ -23519,6 +23519,11 @@ integrated. Finally, rational functions involving trigonometric or hyperbolic functions can be integrated. +With an argument (@kbd{C-u a i}), this command will compute the definite +integral of the expression on top of the stack. In this case, the +command will again prompt for an integration variable, then prompt for a +lower limit and an upper limit. + @ifinfo If you use the @code{integ} function directly in an algebraic formula, you can also write @samp{integ(f,x,v)} which expresses the resulting