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Question: Incorrect calculation of definite integral

Question:Incorrect calculation of definite integral

Kitonum 20514 Maple 2016
August 08 2016
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Quite accidentally I discovered incorrect calculation of the simple definite integral:

int(1/(x^4+4), x=0..1);  

evalf(%);

                            1/8*ln(2)-1/16*ln(5)+1/32*Pi+1/8*arctan(1/3)   # This is incorrect result

                                                   0.1244471178

Is this a known bug?

 

If  first we calculate corresponding indefinite integral, and then by the formula of Newton - Leibniz, that everything is correct:

F:=int(1/(x^4+4), x):

eval(F, x=1)-eval(F, x=0);

evalf(%);

                                             1/16*ln(5)+1/8*arctan(2)

                                                     0.2389834593

 

 
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