You could use this as a work-round:

(1) -> interpret(eval(integrate(x*exp(-(x-u)^2/2)/(sqrt(2*%pi)),
x=a..%plusInfinity), [a=1,u=0.5])::InputForm)

On 30 July 2015 at 22:23, Leon Baum <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why can't doesn't the following produce a numerical result?
>
> (71) -> eval(integrate(x*exp(-(x-u)^2/2)/(sqrt(2*%pi)), x=a..%plusInfinity),
> [a=1,u=0.5])
>
>    (71)  - 0.25 erf(0.3535533905_932737622) + 0.6020653267_6429947778
>                                                       Type:
> Expression(Float)
> (72) -> eval(integrate(x*exp(-(x-u)^2/2)/(sqrt(2*%pi)), x=a..%plusInfinity),
> [a=1,u=0.5])::Float
>
>    Cannot convert the value from type Expression(Float) to Float .
>
>
> If I type the expression in manually, it works:
>
>
>
> (72) -> -0.25*erf(0.3535533905_932737622) + 0.6020653267_6429947778
>
>    (72)  0.5063340961_2729292596
>                                                                   Type:
> Float
>
>
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