Dirk Laurie on Sun, 18 Mar 2018 19:21:08 +0100 |
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Summation methods in Pari |
In another thread, the integral intnum(x=0, +oo, x*exp(cos(x))*sin(sin(x))/(x^2+1)) was put forward. One usually treats such integrals by integrating between the zeros of the integerant and summing the series. That is, one calculates it as a(j) = intnum(x=(j-1)*Pi,j*Pi,x*exp(cos(x))*sin(sin(x))/(x^2+1)) sumalt(j=1,a(j)) 0.69629540719872898198270609602401738323 checking the result by the other option to sumalt sumalt(j=1,a(j),1) 0.69562691429044417458883167983867515631 It is clear that at least one of these answers is in error by at least 0.0003. The reason is that the sequence a(j) is not totally alternating, and the theoretical basis for the acceleration method fails. Since this is a property that the software could easily check, could not a warning message be printed?