Solution to a tricky little Integral
Some time ago now I wrote about an integral that Mathcad 14 had trouble with and also asked if anyone could solve it by hand.
Well, James Graham-Eagle of the University of Massachusetts has risen to the challenge and provided me with the full solution as a pdf file which I offer to you all for your downloading pleasure. Thanks James!
Maxima doesn’t support this at all, symbolic or numeric, unless I’m missing something. Is anyone else able to get this to work?
integrate (asin(x)/x, x,0,1);
ratsimp(%);
Both return the problem with no solution.
Mathematica handled this integral just fine, for what it’s worth.
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