Sunday, 23 November 2014

calculus - Antiderivative of sec(x)


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Using Mathematica to get the antiderivative for sec(x), I get $$-\log(\cos\frac{x}{2}-\sin\frac{x}{2})+\log(\cos\frac{x}{2}+\sin\frac{x}{2}).$$



This doesn't look familiar, so, I'm thinking there's probably some identity or other way to transform this...



Any insight would be appreciated.

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