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- From: edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: closed forms
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 10:39:23 -0500
- Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math.
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- >Note. Derivation of the fact that integral exp(-x^2) dx = exp(-x^2) w + C
- >for rational function w is impossible: First, w must satisfy the
- >differential equation w' - 2x = 1. Deduce that w has no (finite) poles, so
- ^^^^^^^^^^^
- should be w' - 2xw = 1
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- >w is a polynomial. Obtain a contradiction by comparing the degrees of
- >polynomials.
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