#1773: piecewise functions and integration / arithmetic do not play well 
together
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   Reporter:  was       |          Owner:  gfurnish  
       Type:  defect    |         Status:  new       
   Priority:  major     |      Milestone:  sage-4.7.1
  Component:  calculus  |       Keywords:            
Work_issues:            |       Upstream:  N/A       
   Reviewer:            |         Author:            
     Merged:            |   Dependencies:            
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Comment(by kcrisman):

 Replying to [comment:2 rlm]:
 > This isn't specific to integrate. The problem is that piecewise
 functions don't play well with *symbolics*
 >
 > {{{
 > sage: f1(x) = -abs(x) + 1
 > sage: f2(x) = abs(x - 2) - 1
 > sage: tri_wave = piecewise([ [(-1,1), f1], [(1,3), f2]])
 > sage: tri_wave(x)
 > SAME ERROR
 > }}}

 Or see what happens when we try to multiply piecewise and symbolic.
 {{{
 sage: f = Piecewise([[(0,pi/2),-1],[(pi/2,pi),2]])
 sage: f*sin(x)
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 AttributeError
 }}}

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