That was before the fix from this issue: https://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=3761, which was a wrong result. So very likely that answer is wrong.
Aaron Meurer On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Rathmann <rathmann...@gmail.com> wrote: > But Sympy returns a result for x**x as well. It is just not in terms that > most will find easy to understand: > >>>> integrate(x**x) > Piecewise((x*x**x*gamma(x + 1)/gamma(x + 2), Abs(x) < 1), (x*x**x*gamma(x + > 1)/gamma(x + 2) + gamma(x + 1)/gamma(x + 2) + gamma(-x - 1)/gamma(-x), > Abs(1/x) < 1), (meijerg(((1,), (x + 2,)), ((x + 1,), (0,)), x) + meijerg(((x > + 2, 1), ()), ((), (x + 1, 0)), x), True)) > > > On Monday, May 27, 2013 10:53:22 AM UTC-7, Aaron Meurer wrote: >> >> What is a good example of a (preferably simple) integral that SymPy >> will not likely be able to ever do, because there really aren't any >> closed forms of it, even in terms of special functions? I need a nice >> example of when integrate() returns an Integral() in my new tutorial. >> Either definite or indefinite will do fine. >> >> Aaron Meurer > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en-US. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.