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Re: MX2 2016 Integration Marathon

Oh wow

Trig sub went right over your head
 

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Oh lol. Cause you quoted the post making it seem like you ignored trig sub.

But, um, wow m8
I think my method would be faster if I knew inverse hyperbolic functions.
 

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Strangely enough I had - in my head but wrote +. I even wondered "hm where did this + come from"

In that case, after the secant substitution...



This isn't even hard. A very nice result comes direct out of a tangent half-angle substitution
 

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Re: MX2 2016 Integration Marathon

Strangely enough I had - in my head but wrote +. I even wondered "hm where did this + come from"

In that case, after the secant substitution...



This isn't even hard. A very nice result comes direct out of a tangent half-angle substitution
 

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I considered it briefly, because I knew 1/(1±sinx) and 1/(1±cosx) were simple integrals that could be manipulated without the substitution using a Pythagorean identity. But being lazy to continue I checked on W.A. and you can just make it equal to -tan(x/2) anyhow.
 
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