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From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Integrals/Derivatives in C
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 07:56:04 -0800
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Greg Wooledge x5932 wrote:

> I never touched symbolic integration.

Probably rightly so; symbolic integration is doubly hard because not only is
it hard to begin with, and not only does it require a certain level of
expertise (so you're writing an AI program more than a math program), but in
particular some antiderivatives cannot be expressed in closed form; e.g., int
e^(-x^2).  Which means that you'll not only have to decide what to do, but
also decide when you can't do anything.

As you say, though, numerical integration is pretty straightforward.

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