Re: Defining piece-wise functions and drawing, integrating, ...

"Sumant S.R. Oemrawsingh" <[email protected]> writes:

> Integrating over a list of functions with a list of boundaries is certainly a
> clever way of doing this, but alas, I do not know a priori what the
> boundaries of integration are. In other words, some of these functions will
> be displaced and some boundaries will come before others. I've always done
> this integration by hand, as well as the ordering of the boundaries, but
> things are getting more and more ridiculous now, with many, many different
> cases. I was hoping that Axiom could figure all this out itself.

Hm, an example would be great here.  What information do you have, and what do
you want axiom to figure out?  Are your boundaries always "numeric" like %e,
%pi, sin(1), etc., i.e., convertible to, say, floats?  Otherwise, you probably
cannot expect automatic ordering, since there is no order, even in one
variable: sin y < cos y or not?  Worse: y^2 > y or not?

Finally, I do not understand what you mean with "displacement".

Martin