Thanks for debugging my code. Should have been (1-x)^(3-1). I'm blaming that on having a one-week old at home.
On Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 10:31:10 AM UTC-6, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > > On Thursday, 19 November 2015 15:41:37 UTC, Matt Rissler wrote: >> >> integrate(x^(3-1)*(1-x)*(3-1),x,0,1) >> >> Why is this returning 1/6 and not 1/30? >> >> well you can check by hand that it is 1/6, for you are integrating a > polynomial > 2*x^2-2*x^3 > the antiderivative is 2*(x^3/3-x^4/4), and you get 2*(1/3-1/4)-0=1/6... > > perhaps you mean some other function.... > > > >> More generally why is >> >> integrate(x^(ai-1)*(1-x)*(bi-1),x,0,1) >> >> returning (bi - 1)/(ai^2 + ai) and not beta(ai,bi) as it should? >> >> Running this on SMC. >> > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
