Hi All, In Maxima (embedded in SageMath) you can use: expand(trigrat(integrate(integrate(sin(x^2),x,y,1),y,0,1)));
in order to get exactly the same result in both cases. Daniel En miércoles, 8 de diciembre de 2021 23:02:00 GMT+2, Fernando Q. Gouvea <fqgou...@colby.edu> escribió: I see. So the difference between this and, say, 1+1==2 (which returns True) is that 1+1 and 2 are numbers, not symbolic things. Fernando On 12/8/2021 3:37 PM, William Stein wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 12:22 PM Fernando Q. Gouvea <fqgou...@colby.edu> wrote: Thank you, that works. What is strange is that this does not: sage: right=integrate(integrate(sin(x^2),y,0,x),x,0,1) sage: wrong=integrate(integrate(sin(x^2),x,y,1),y,0,1) sage: real(wrong)==right -1/2*cos(1) + 1/2 == -1/2*cos(1) + 1/2 Is Sage seeing a difference there that I don't? I think I don't understand the difference between real(wrong)==right and bool(real(wrong)==right). In Sage "[symbol thing] == [symbolic thing]" is a constructor for a symbolic equation. sage: SR(2) == SR(2) 2 == 2 sage: parent(SR(2) == SR(2)) Symbolic Ring sage: bool(SR(2) == SR(2)) True # only because Sage can *prove* they are equal -- it's false if it can't prove they are equal, even if they are equal... https://cocalc.com/wstein/support/gouvea-equals Fernando On 12/8/2021 1:23 PM, William Stein wrote: You can compare the real and imaginary parts directly. https://cocalc.com/wstein/support/2021-12-08-gouvea sage: bool(wrong.real() == right) True sage: wrong.imag() 0 On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 10:07 AM Fernando Q. Gouvea <fqgou...@colby.edu> wrote: I was showing my students a famous calculus example of an integral that can be computed in one order of the variables but not in the other. Knowing that SageMath can compute anything, the students suggested trying the integral the "wrong" way. The "right" way is sage: integrate(integrate(sin(x^2),y,0,x),x,0,1) -1/2*cos(1) + 1/2 The "wrong" way is sage: integrate(integrate(sin(x^2),x,y,1),y,0,1) -1/16*(-1)^(3/4)*((sqrt(2) + 4*(-1)^(1/4))*e^I - sqrt(-I)*((I + 1)*sqrt(2)*(-1)^(1/4)*e^(2*I) - (I + 1)*sqrt(2)*(-1)^(1/4)*e^I) + I*sqrt(2)*e^I - 2*(-1)^(1/4)*e^(2*I) - (I + 1)*sqrt(2) - 2*(-1)^(1/4))*e^(-I) Is there any way to get Sage to check that these are equal? The obvious thing does not seem to work: sage: -1/16*(-1)^(3/4)*((sqrt(2) + 4*(-1)^(1/4))*e^I - sqrt(-I)*((I + 1)*sqrt(2) ....: *(-1)^(1/4)*e^(2*I) - (I + 1)*sqrt(2)*(-1)^(1/4)*e^I) + I*sqrt(2)*e^I - 2* ....: (-1)^(1/4)*e^(2*I) - (I + 1)*sqrt(2) - 2*(-1)^(1/4))*e^(-I) == -1/2*cos(1) ....: +1/2 -1/16*(-1)^(3/4)*((sqrt(2) + 4*(-1)^(1/4))*e^I - sqrt(-I)*((I + 1)*sqrt(2)*(-1)^(1/4)*e^(2*I) - (I + 1)*sqrt(2)*(-1)^(1/4)*e^I) + I*sqrt(2)*e^I - 2*(-1)^(1/4)*e^(2*I) - (I + 1)*sqrt(2) - 2*(-1)^(1/4))*e^(-I) == -1/2*cos(1) + 1/2 Thanks, Fernando -- ================================================================== Fernando Q. Gouvea Carter Professor of Mathematics Colby College Mayflower Hill 5836 Waterville, ME 04901 fqgou...@colby.edu http://www.colby.edu/~fqgouvea I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. --Groucho Marx -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. 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