I know Stavros M saw it and Mike cc'd Robert D, so two of the
main maxima developers definitely know about it now.

Thanks again.


On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:00 AM, pong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Yes, integral does not handle abs correctly.
>
> sage: integral(abs(x),x)
> integrate(abs(x), x)
>
> sage: integral(max(x,-x),x)
> x^2/2
>
> If that's for sure a bug coming from maxima, I hope someone it can be
> reported to their bug list.
> I can see that it has been reported by David to the maxima-user list,
> but somehow it does not show up in either the user or the bug list of
> maxima. Isn't that strange?
>
>
> On Nov 19, 9:33 am, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Thanks for reporting this. I emailed the maxima users list.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:50 AM, pong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > Maybe someone has reported this already... but looks like there is a
>> > bug in integral
>>
>> > sage: integral(x*abs(9-x^2), x, -6, 0)
>> > 162
>>
>> > The integrand is negative on (-6,0)
> >
>

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