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never mocked them

but then again who knows what you see between the words
 

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._. Posted so many times now
 

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Soz been out of the thread for a while - good to know its a fav
Yea dw about it lol, but at least 2 people have done it.


I'll sketch out the (slightly non-X2) method anyway.

1. Border-flip method allows two integrals to be summed up.
2. Use a log law just to put the thing that will generate the -pi/2 ln(2) aside
3. u-substitution combined with periodicity of sine
4. Riemann sums (or alternatively decompose using L'Hopitals)
 

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Soz but where did the sin2x go?
 

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This was a question I remember doing (at least a similar variant) last year. Not sure if it was ever posted again.

 

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This was a question I remember doing (at least a similar variant) last year. Not sure if it was ever posted again.

Recall the following identity:



Setting n=1008, gives us



Then the integral is the following sum:



This is the partial sum for the Leibniz formula for π, which has no elementary closed form.
 

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Probably a wrong boundary. Maybe it was meant to be pi, not pi/2

Edit: Hold the thought it still won't work. Ok fair enough

 
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This is the partial sum for the Leibniz formula for π, which has no elementary closed form.
Yes it does. It will be some giant rational number.

We only really talk about 'closed forms' for infinite sums.
 

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Probably a wrong boundary. Maybe it was meant to be pi, not pi/2

Edit: Hold the thought it still won't work. Ok fair enough

You have forgotten an earlier conversation of your own which established the niceness of the generalised integral for only odd integer values.
 
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