mark mcclure wrote: > There's a lovely little article in the February 2009 issue > of the monthly on using integrals to approximate pi. The > author "discovers" some nice rational approximations of pi > by systmeatically searching through integrals of the > form > > integrate( > (x^m * (1 - x)^n * (a + b*x + c*x^2))/(1 + x^2), > x, 0, 1) > > with Maple. Unfortunately, Maxima (and therefore Sage) > cannot do these integrals.
Maybe a different example is needed; Maxima can now compute such integrals. (The code was in CVS at the time and now it's been released.) Maxima's symbolic integration has been greatly strengthened by recent work of Dieter Kaiser and Raymond Toy. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
