Thanks so much for all the efforts for making sage output consistent 
results for the numerical approximation. However, the main problem I had 
was the fact that Sage returns different answers when I preparse the string 
of the same sage expression as in the examples of the original post.

On Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:18:12 UTC-4, William wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Dima Pasechnik <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:44:32 UTC, William wrote: 
> >> 
> >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Dima Pasechnik <[email protected]> 
> wrote: 
> >> > On 2015-03-11, Nils Bruin <[email protected]> wrote: 
> >> >> On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 2:46:25 AM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik 
> wrote: 
> >> >>> 
> >> >>> I tried this integral directly in Maxima, and taking bfloat of it 
> >> >>> outputs nonsense. 
> >> >>> 
> >> >> 
> >> >> I have noticed before that bfloats aren't infectious enough: 
> operations 
> >> >> on 
> >> >> bfloats can easily result in a normal "double". I think there are 
> ways 
> >> >> to 
> >> >> convince maxima to use bfloats more pervasively. Perhaps a global 
> >> >> precision 
> >> >> setting somewhere? 
> >> >> 
> >> >> 
> >> >>> I wish there was a more accessible full implementation of Risch 
> >> >>> algorithm... 
> >> >>> 
> >> >> 
> >> >> This is a rational function, so a first calculus course would 
> already 
> >> >> teach 
> >> >> you the relevant part of the Risch algorithm. It's a little more 
> tricky 
> >> >> to 
> >> > 
> >> > Risch, as implemented in Axiom, does not do factorisation (i.e. no 
> >> > partial fractions). 
> >> > In this example at least it produces much nicer looking 
> antiderivative, 
> >> > no huge integers. 
> >> > http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/ExampleIntegration 
> >> > 
> >> > Dima 
> >> 
> >> For what it's worth, here's how to mostly do that Axiom session, but 
> >> in a SageMathCloud worksheet... 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> https://cloud.sagemath.com/projects/4a5f0542-5873-4eed-a85c-a18c706e8bcd/files/support/2015-03-11-093745-axiom-integral.sagews
>  
> > 
> > 
> > here is a better version (all the stuff works): 
> > 
> https://cloud.sagemath.com/projects/bb6fd6ca-6304-4dda-be31-bd2dd5eb3d98/files/support/2015-03-11-093745-axiom-integral.sagews
>  
> > 
>
> Thanks!  I replaced mine by yours. 
>
> William 
>
> > Dima 
> > 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> William 
> >> 
> >> > 
> >> >> get an ostensibly real-valued function as an antiderivative. Anyway, 
> >> >> sympy 
> >> >> produces a reasonable-looking antiderivative. 
> >> >> 
> >> >> Interestingly, we have: 
> >> >> 
> >> >> sage: I=integral(x/(x^3-x+1), x, 1, 2, algorithm='sympy') 
> >> >> sage: RIF(I) 
> >> >> TypeError: unable to simplify to a real interval approximation 
> >> >> 
> >> >> The offending subexpression seems to be: 
> >> >> 
> >> >> sage: A=(299838966359964800*69^(5/6)*2^(2/3) - 
> >> >> 11515081166050000*69^(2/3)*2^(1/3)*(25*sqrt(69) + 207)^(1/3) - 
> >> >> 99785894223312000*sqrt(69)*(25*sqrt(69) + 207)^(2/3) + 
> >> >> 2271318237097115625*69^(1/3)*2^(2/3) - 
> >> >> 99785894223312000*69^(1/6)*2^(1/3)*(25*sqrt(69) + 207)^(1/3) - 
> >> >> 497728835949744*9522^(1/3)*(25*sqrt(69) + 207)^(1/3) - 
> >> >> 828883890137982336*(25*sqrt(69) + 207)^(2/3) + 
> >> >> 219331275901257879*276^(1/3))^(QQ(-1)) 
> >> >> sage: RIF(A) 
> >> >> TypeError: unable to simplify to a real interval approximation 
> >> >> 
> >> >> Note the *rational* exponent -1. If that's an integer there's no 
> >> >> problem. 
> >> >> Using RealIntervalField(200) has the same problem. Using 
> RealField(...) 
> >> >> seems to work fine. 
> >> >> 
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