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Luca Sandrin
Feb 15, 2019

Integral which wolfram alpha's result is wrong

in Math Problems

Hi! This integral is apparently easy but very difficult. My professor gives a solution (with explanation) which is totally different from solutions that you can find on wolfram alpha, symbolab etc. Enjoy!

Result: -pi/2


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awang23
May 15, 2020

How can this graph have a negative area?

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Luca Sandrin
May 15, 2020

it hasn't have that ahah


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Ian Fowler
May 15, 2020

It does have negative area. The function is negative for 0< x < 1 , 0 for x=1 and positive for x>1. The negative area is just larger than the positive area.

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Luca Sandrin
May 15, 2020

you're right sorry!!! I don't know why but in my mind it was from infinite to 0


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Ian Fowler
May 15, 2020  ·  Edited: May 15, 2020

@Luca Sandrin Not to worry. This kind of thing has happened to me several times. We've all done it.

Looks like a tough one. Maybe Leibniz Method?

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Luca Sandrin
May 15, 2020

@Ian Fowler After one year I still can't find a working method for that integral ahahahah


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Aneesh Srinivas
Jul 06, 2020

I found an answer, barring a little bit of hand waving once I got to the functional equation.does anybody know how to rigorously show that my solution is the only solution.


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Aneesh Srinivas
Jul 06, 2020


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