# An integration

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Integration of e^sinx with respect to x. Do you think it ever terminates?

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Integration of e^sinx with respect to x. Do you think it ever terminates?

What in the world is that supposed to mean ?

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Integration of e^sinx with respect to x. Do you think it ever terminates?

Expand $e^{\sin x}$ as a taylor series at $x_{0}=0$. Integrate it between 0 and infinity. When you try to take the limit you'll see.

Also. You could just plot the function or think about the fact that the function oscillates sinusoidally between e-1 and e1 as 1 and -1 are both the extreme values of sin x.

This is all assuming that by "does it terminate?" you mean does the integral from 0 to infinity have a finite value?

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Expand $e^{\sin x}$ as a taylor series at $x_{0}=0$. Integrate it between 0 and infinity. When you try to take the limit you'll see.

Also. You could just plot the function or think about the fact that the function oscillates sinusoidally between e-1 and e1 as 1 and -1 are both the extreme values of sin x.

This is all assuming that by "does it terminate?" you mean does the integral from 0 to infinity have a finite value?

So it doesn't have a generalized answer for indefinite integrals?

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The integral from a to infinity does not exist if thats what you are asking.

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Doesn't that kind of make sense though? If you have an infinitely long function, then there's infinite area under it. I suppose there should be a nodal at infinity itself though, but that doesn't really mean anything in reality.

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That's not true. The function $\frac{1}{(n+1)^2}$ is "infinitely long" and the area under it (from 0 to infinity) sums up to one. For an example of a function whose integral from negative to positive infinity (can one say "over the real numbers"?) is finite, have a look at the Gaussian integral.

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