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debanik2
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Definite Integral

Just give a minor hint and dont solve it completely
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Kent Merryfield
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Famous problem - I'm sure it's been posted, and I've used it for my problem-solving class. Hints, you say?

(a) Integrate by parts to set up a recursion.

(b) Long division.

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Yes, You had posted certainly the very problem before. I have it.
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debanik2
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could u cite the link?

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The first two parts are done



Can anyone help prove the last part?

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debanik2 wrote:
could u cite the link?


Sure, Smile

Here is: http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?p=125923#125923
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