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Grade 12Integral Calculus

How to integrate x^x

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13 Years agoGrade 12
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ApprovedApproved Tutor Answer13 Years ago

Dear Raghav Somani,

You cannot integrate xx .This is because the Antiderivative of x^x is not reducible to any elementary functions -- which is not at all unusual. This is true of MOST functions. Calculus books usually list antiderivatives of a hundred or so rather simple functions, and toward the end of the list the antiderivatives get really bizarre. It does not take much effort to come up with a function which can not be precisely integrated. x^x is one.

 

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13 Years ago

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