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  • Feb 17, 2011, 12:51 PM
    naresh1204
    integration of e tanx?
    please help me with integration of e^tanx.
  • Feb 17, 2011, 01:12 PM
    jcaron2
    I don't think there's an analytical solution.

    If you try it with Wolfram's online integrator, it gives the result in terms of the Exponential Integral Ei function, which I believe is transcendental.
  • Feb 18, 2011, 06:32 AM
    galactus

    If you had limits of integration, we may be able to do something 'non-elementary' to evaluate. But, as jcaron said, it has no nice closed indefinite form.

    May I ask... you do not happen to be studying the (second) fundamental theorem of calculus, are you? Sometimes a student is given something like:

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    Then, instead of exhibiting an understanding of the theorem, by brute force they try to evaluate the integral. Which, a lot of times, is not integrable by elementary means learned in a typical calc class.

    Just a thought.

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