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CAS bug? Message #1 Posted by mapet on 22 Nov 2002, 6:39 a.m. Tan(x)integral from 0 to oo crashes my HP 40G. How about Hp 49G ?

Re: CAS bug? Message #2 Posted by Tom Sherman (Maine) on 22 Nov 2002, 9:31 a.m., in response to message #1 by mapet I am crashing too!! What can the integral of sin, cos, or tan be, when integrated to infinity? Maybe Lewis Carroll could tell me.

Re: CAS bug? Message #3 Posted by axel on 22 Nov 2002, 10:05 a.m., in response to message #2 by Tom Sherman (Maine) Integral of Tan(x) is -ln(cos(x)) which has a singularity at x=pi/2 (and 3/2 pi, 5/2 pi etc). So the integral from 0 to x=pi/2 would be oo. Although, you can calculate the Cauchy principal value (limit for x-> pi/2) of the integral from 0 to pi, which is 0. Hopefully not to confusing eplained... Greetings from Jena, Germany

Re: CAS bug? Message #4 Posted by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) on 22 Nov 2002, 11:06 a.m., in response to message #3 by axel Hi; would this singularity raise to oo if PI/2 is not exact? Is the exact-mode flag set? What about trying in Approximate mode? I did not try it, but I thought I could suggest it. Regards from Brazil.

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