The given result is technically correct, since the limit is equal to pi^2 /
3. It seems that sage simply doesn't know how to evaluate the limit.

lør. 9. maj 2015 kl. 13.19 skrev Ruslan Abramchuk <[email protected]>:

> sage 6.6 gives strange value of a rather common integral:
>
>     integral(x/(exp(x)-1),x,0,Infinity)
>
> returns
>
>     -1/6*pi^2 + limit(-1/2*x^2 + x*log(-e^x + 1) + polylog(2, e^x), x,
> +Infinity, minus)
>
> when it is pi^2/6.
> Similar situation with integral(x^3/(exp(x)-1),x,0,Infinity).
> Numerical integration works properly.
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