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|    Richard Fateman to All    |
|    Re: integral for fun    |
|    28 Feb 14 20:33:56    |
      From: fateman@cs.berkeley.edu              I don't consider a solution that includes       Si, Ci, or hypergeometric functions as a solution       in closed form in terms of elementary functions.              Unless there is no way of expressing the answer in       terms of elementary functions.              After all, you could always decide that the       difficult integral in question deserves its own       name, say FooI, and then return the answer in terms       of FooI.              RJF              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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