On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 10:09:14AM +0800, Qian Yun wrote:
> Thanks for the report.
> 
> Git bisect points to
> https://github.com/fricas/fricas/commit/1f42999f91ce516a8d027a61be4ecbf32ad2ada4
> 
> "Handle some elliptic integrals", June 14, 2022.
> (Between 1.3.7 and 1.3.8)
> 
> Before this commit, the result is a integral sign
> which means fricas proves it does not have elemental
> integral, which is correct.

The reason is that transformations used in postprocessing result
of integration may incorrectly transform elliptic integrals to
0.
 
> 
> - Best,
> - Qian
> 
> On 1/28/26 1:42 AM, Fabian wrote:
> > Hello FriCAS group,
> > 
> > It looks like I found a bug in FriCAS:
> > F:=integrate(acos(x^2),x)
> > gives:
> >       +--------+
> >      |   4         2      2
> > - 2 \|- x  + 1  + x acos(x )
> > ----------------------------
> >               x
> > 
> > D(F,x)-acos(x^2)
> > gives the following instead of 0:
> >        2
> > -------------
> >    +--------+
> >  2 |   4
> > x \|- x  + 1
> > 
> > I use FriCAS via https://sagecell.sagemath.org/ . Here is some Sage-code
> > that produces the above output:
> > 
> > from sage.interfaces.fricas import fricas
> > fricas.eval(
> >     "F:=integrate(acos(x^2),x)"
> > )
> > print("F=\n",fricas("F"))
> > fricas.eval("f:=D(F,x)-acos(x^2)")
> > print("F'-acos(x^2)=\n",fricas("f"))
> > 
> > The FriCAS version is 1.3.12. (print(fricas.eval(")lisp |
> > $build_version|") tells me this.)
> > 
> > The SageMath version is 10.8, Release Date: 2025-12-18. (version() tells
> > me this.)
> > 
> > Fabian
> > 
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