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[Dogmeat]

Ok, this is embarassing, but Calc II was far and away my worst subject in all of college.

Let's say you have a 1/x function and you actually need to integrate this for a purpose instead of just for fun, so you have limite of integration on it.

considering the integral of 1/x is ln (x) ...

what do you do again if one of your limits of integration is 0 ...?

mathematically you get infininty if you integrate this because the ln of 0 is infinity .... BUT.

I actually need to figure out a way to quantify this equation for a useful purpose believe it or not.

All my old calc books are still packed up so I can't go look at them and I can't find a tutorial on the internet.

Help! I'm retarded!

[prefix]

Mathematics grad student to the rescue. You can't integrate it with the bottom limit of zero, you'll get infinity. If you're doing something where you're integrating to 0 then you're probably doing it wrong. Perhaps you could explain the problem and I should be able to help you out.

A little explanation. Since you have a bound that doesn't exist you actually take the limit of the integral from N to whatever and then evaluate with the limit of N approaching 0. But once again you'll get

lim N -> 0 [ ln(l) - ln(N) ] = ln(l) - (-inf). Where l is your upper bound. I'd use b as your bound but it keeps making smiley faces like this

[blaarg]

Mathematics grad student to the rescue.

Wait your a math grad student...
uh who are you?