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#1 2008-12-06 23:19:01

Daniel123
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Registered: 2007-05-23
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Reduction formulae

Could someone give me a hint please?

Thanks.

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#2 2008-12-07 04:49:14

Daniel123
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Re: Reduction formulae

Don't worry, I got it.

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#3 2008-12-07 05:09:55

Ricky
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Re: Reduction formulae

Did you use induction with integration by parts?  I haven't tried working it at all, but that's how these questions typically go.


"In the real world, this would be a problem.  But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist.  So we'll go ahead and do that now..."

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#4 2008-12-07 05:34:32

Daniel123
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Re: Reduction formulae

I wrote:

, which I then integrated by parts (twice).

I also had to spot to rewrite

as
in the middle.

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