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|    Axel Vogt to paulandrewbird@gmail.com    |
|    Re: Can someone solve this improper inte    |
|    30 Jun 14 21:22:55    |
      From: &noreply@axelvogt.de              On 30.06.2014 20:01, paulandrewbird@gmail.com wrote:       > integral( exp( a*x^4+4*b*x^3*y+6*c*x^2*y^2+4*d*x*y^3+e*y^4) ,x       -infty..infty, y=-infty..finty)       >       > I'm guessing it's going to be in the form 1/P(a,b,c,d,e)^(1/8) where P is a       4th degree polynomial in the coefficients of the quartic.       >       > My guess is that P is the discriminant of the polynomial but that is just a       guess.              what do you get and expect if integrand = exp(+-x^2*y^2) ?              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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