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- From: edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Evaluation of an integral
- Date: 20 Aug 1992 10:55:44 -0400
- Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math.
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- Keywords: exponential
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- The indefinite integral of exp(exp(x)) is not an elementary function.
- It can be written in terms of the "exponential integral" function Ei.
- Here is what Maple told me:
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- > int(exp(exp(x)),x=0..1/2);
- Ei(exp(1/2)) - Ei(1)
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- _
- > evalf(");
- 1.862435425
-
- _
- > evalf("",500);
- 1.86243542410770481303208319610528784480767978806791677492786511\
- 6756585929911929584000958223836189072911105728790853406648259328\
- 5160931747066377341039540685553425675519341357883987318612260687\
- 7240917117028993932573426557682047900448981801741402940554396575\
- 3757565242095688007336161253448510962393332822684592137177470401\
- 7628981687136387893692977513705639582896999666998738745059455124\
- 2820516352293270980363589870785304954163909314696773205898299141\
- 48192082991352267983908311939018676600101681264222032
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- >
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