Article 420G9 Integration by long division

Integration by long division

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Since integration is the inverse of differentiation, you can think of integration as "dividing" by d.

J. P. Ballantine [1] shows that you can formally divide by d and get the correct integral. For example, he arrives at

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using long division!

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[1] J. P. Ballantine. Integration by Long Division. The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 58, No. 2 (Feb., 1951), pp. 104-105

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