Yeah I understand, hold seems to be exactly what I am looking for. Shame it is disabled.
On Monday, March 18, 2013 10:37:50 AM UTC-4, kcrisman wrote: > > > > On Sunday, March 17, 2013 10:56:22 PM UTC-4, david kircos wrote: >> >> http://i50.tinypic.com/a4wok1.png >> >> A screenshot is above^ >> >> This seems kinda odd to me. Is there a way to consistently return the >> unevaluated form of the integral? >> > Think of this in terms of composite functions. You first ask for > integral(x^2,x) (which is x^3/3) and then ask for show() of that. So it > shows that. Does that make sense? > > As to your second question, Maxima (our backend for integrals) does allow > this, but I don't think we enable this. I suspect there is some workaround > - my apologies that I don't have time to think of it now; unfortunately, > the one that works for many operations (adding "hold=True" as a keyword) > does not work for integration. Someone else will hopefully remember. > > - kcrisman > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
