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- From: 6500lem@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Laurence Mailaender)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Evaluation of an integral
- Keywords: exponential
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- Date: 22 Aug 92 01:25:56 GMT
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- In article <BtACnF.CxK@news.cso.uiuc.edu> magdi@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Magdi N Azer) writes:
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- >Can anyone tell me if there is an analytical expression one can obtain
- >]for exp[exp(x)]. I've done a Taylor Series expansion to fourth order,
- >but I don't know if I am missing something obvious about this.
-
- >Second, can this be integrated(other than numerically)
- >The limits of the integral are 0 and 0.5
- >thank you
-
- >Magdi N Azer
- >magdi@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
-
- Magdi-
-
- I haven't thought about it too much, but a simple way to look
- at this is:
-
- exp(y) = 1 + y + (y**2)/2! + (y**3)/3! + etc.
-
- substituting y= exp(x)
-
- exp(exp(x)) = 1 + exp(x) + exp(2x)/2! + exp(3x)/3! + etc.
-
- using the "ratio test" it is very easy to see that this is
- a convergent series, therefore it is the function you want.
- Since exp(x) itself is a transendental function, one should
- not expect to find a closed-form expression for your function.
-
- The expansion above is easily integrated term-by-term, although
- you may need many terms for satisfactory precision.
-
- Laurence Mailaender
- Dept. of Electrical Engineering
- U. C. Santa Barbara
-