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Indefinite integration as term rewriting: Integrals containing tangent

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We describe the development of a term-rewriting system for indefinite integration; it is also called a rule-based evaluation system. The development is separated into modules, and we describe the module for a wide class of integrands containing the tangent function.

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond St., London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5B7

    J. Hu, Y. Hou, A. D. Rich & D. J. Jeffrey

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Hu, J., Hou, Y., Rich, A.D. et al. Indefinite integration as term rewriting: Integrals containing tangent. Program Comput Soft 39, 61–66 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0361768813020059

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