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[Jay-qu]

Originally Posted by Qfwfq

Hmmm, not quite, it's often a matter of finding a method. Unlike what Jay says, sometimes even finding the integral of a function, without looking it up, can be by no means trivial. Try for instance:



or even the Gaussian:

right you are Q, the concept of whats going of isnt to hard to understand, while actually doing it proves much harder and in the case of some integrations (and differentiations?) are impossible to perform analytically.