Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/02/07/22:03:13
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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