From: Giles Bowkett <gilesb@...>
Date: 2006-05-09T13:19:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Integration/Antidifferentiation Program

I know nada about calc, but for what it's worth, it's used as a
teaching exercise in the Perl book I mentioned (and is probably
adapted from the Lisp teaching exercises somebody else mentioned).

Of course it's heavily dependent on recursion, if I recall correctly.

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Giles Bowkett
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On 5/8/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> A look at Axiom or Maxima (open source) or Derive (closed source but
> very inexpensive, especially to college students) will pretty much show
> you what the state of the art in antidifferentiation algorithms is. The
> name I remember is Risch, although there may be some others.
>
> Justin Bangerter wrote:
> > I've been thinking about doing something like this myself, just for
> > shits and giggles, and I was just wondering if it would be good to use
> > infinite series expressions to integrate. It seems like it would be a
> > more standardized way of integration (unless an ln shows up somewhere).
> > Perhaps once you can write something that will integrate polynomial
> > expressions, it would be reasonable to use infinite series like this.
> > However, I haven't really taken the time to mess with it.  I don't know
> > how much calculus you know, either, so I don't know if you really want
> > to teach yourself Taylor and Maclauren series just to do this.  If
> > you're really into it, though, that way seems possible.
> >
> >
>
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> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
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