Thanks for debugging my code. Should have been (1-x)^(3-1). I'm blaming
that on having a one-week old at home.
On Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 10:31:10 AM UTC-6, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
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> On Thursday, 19 November 2015 15:41:37 UTC, Matt Rissler wrote:
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>> integrate(x^(3-1)*(1-x)*(3-1),x
On Thursday, 19 November 2015 15:41:37 UTC, Matt Rissler wrote:
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> integrate(x^(3-1)*(1-x)*(3-1),x,0,1)
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> Why is this returning 1/6 and not 1/30?
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> well you can check by hand that it is 1/6, for you are integrating a
polynomial
2*x^2-2*x^3
the antiderivative is 2*(x^3/3-x^4/4), and you get