lolneedhelpwithintegral

int(e^x^2,x=0..1)

go forth and solve!

PS erf

Years back when I was in quantum mechanics, the prof assigned a HW that required us to solve such an equation.  I got to that point, wrote "no formula" or something like that on the paper, and handed it in.  Apparently prof didn't know, a bunch of students wasted a lot of time trying to solve it.  I didn't go to study sessions because I wasn't learning anything from the other students.  A pity.

>>2
Two summers ago in a freshman programming class, one of the homework questions was to write a program that generates perfect numbers.  The prof apparently had no idea that completing the problem would've won you like 3 Fields Medals.

he knew

\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{1}{(2n+1) n!}

>>4
Trust me, he didn't.  He was a senile old fart who spent entire class periods rambling on about what programming was like back in the 50's when he was still employable.

>>3
Shouldn't be that hard... all it takes is to brute force mersenne primes/odd numbers until you find the next perfect number.  We'll shove under the rug the fact that it might take the rest of the universe to compute.

>>6
holy shit, what kind of craptastic school do you go to?

>>7
A large Big 12 school known far more for football than anything academic.

It was a 5-week summer class, though, which are generally somewhere below your average community college in terms of academic standards.

>>8
So like Ivy League, except less academic.

Summer classes in a "full" university should still be above "average community college".

Thinking erf is a better answer here is just retarded because its the same thing (impressive you know the definition). So what if you put a name on it? Congratu-fucking-lations, you're just as far as you were before.

>>9
Implying the Big 12 is similar to the Ivy League in any way at all.

oh you

>>10
Special function safari?  What makes e^x special?  It's almost never a rational, or even algebraic number.  It just has nice properties, so we define this thing to be a "fundamental function".  Same with sin, cos, sqrt, etc.

>>11
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education...

>>12
Yep, my school and Harvard both have a football team.  You're right on the money there. -_-

int(e^(x^2))->
int(1 + x^2 + x^4/2! + x^6/3! + x^8/4! + ...)->

(x + x^3/3 + x^5/(5*2!) + x^7/(7*3!) + x^9/(9*4!) + ...) from 0...1

= 1 + 1/3 + 1/(5*2!) + 1/(7*3!) + 1/(9*4!) + ...

In other words, fuck you op

>>14
Cute