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Mathcad Prime 8 Wrong integral calculation result? #1

CornelBejan
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Mathcad Prime 8 Wrong integral calculation result? #1

Hello,

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@CornelBejan wrote:

I think this happens because of that constant which normally is added in the indefinite integral calculation:

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Correct.  And if a software by default ignores/omits that constant of integration in indefinite integrals, it also should omit that summand 1/n. So Prime is also a bit more "correct" here because its result for this integral also covers correctly the case of n=0 whereas the results of Mathematica is wrong and invalid for n=0.

 

As for the other integral I am disappointed that neither software considers the case n=0 and simply ignores it!

 

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I think this happens because of that constant which normally is added in the indefinite integral calculation:

CornelBejan_0-1675324435951.png


@CornelBejan wrote:

I think this happens because of that constant which normally is added in the indefinite integral calculation:

CornelBejan_0-1675324435951.png


Correct.  And if a software by default ignores/omits that constant of integration in indefinite integrals, it also should omit that summand 1/n. So Prime is also a bit more "correct" here because its result for this integral also covers correctly the case of n=0 whereas the results of Mathematica is wrong and invalid for n=0.

 

As for the other integral I am disappointed that neither software considers the case n=0 and simply ignores it!

 

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