I've noticed this too. I wonder if they purposely implemented Sage
syntax or if it's just a very comprehensive parser.

On Feb 20, 7:40 pm, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote:
> I noticed a couple of things on sage-devel recently about integration
> with Maxima. It appears Maxima can't do either of these two. (Well, it
> does the second one, but leaves it in a overly complex form, that
> Sage's n(). can't even use).
>
> integrate( sqrt(x^2+4)/(x^2+1), x )
>
> integrate(log(1+x)/(x^2+1),(x,0,1)) # (This one from the Putman 2005 
> challenge)
>
> I noticed that if one sticks that exact syntax into Wolfram|Alpha, it
> evaluates the integrals. There's no need to re-write the integrals in
> Mathematica's syntax.. If one was to use Mathematica directly, then
> the sage syntax would not be understood.
>
> I guess none of this is not totally surprising, but can be useful to
> get a second opinion on something, without even taking the trouble to
> rewrite the problem in Mathematica's syntax.
>
> See:
>
> http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=integrate%28%20sqrt%28x^2%2B4%29%2F%28x^2%2B1%29%2C%20x%20%29&t=ff3tb01
>
> http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=integrate%28log%281%2Bx%29%2F%28x^2%2B1%29%2C%28x%2C0%2C1%29%29&t=ff3tb01
>
> Dave

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