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The slope field of () = +, showing three of the infinitely many solutions that can be produced by varying the arbitrary constant c.. In calculus, an antiderivative, inverse derivative, primitive function, primitive integral or indefinite integral [Note 1] of a continuous function f is a differentiable function F whose derivative is equal to the original function f.
The integral symbol is U+222B ∫ INTEGRAL in Unicode [5] and \int in LaTeX.In HTML, it is written as ∫ (hexadecimal), ∫ and ∫ (named entity).. The original IBM PC code page 437 character set included a couple of characters ⌠,⎮ and ⌡ (codes 244 and 245 respectively) to build the integral symbol.
If the function f does not have any continuous antiderivative which takes the value zero at the zeros of f (this is the case for the sine and the cosine functions), then sgn(f(x)) ∫ f(x) dx is an antiderivative of f on every interval on which f is not zero, but may be discontinuous at the points where f(x) = 0.
When taking the antiderivative, Lagrange followed Leibniz's notation: [7] = ′ = ′. However, because integration is the inverse operation of differentiation, Lagrange's notation for higher order derivatives extends to integrals as well. Repeated integrals of f may be written as
When an antiderivative of exists, then there are infinitely many antiderivatives for , obtained by adding an arbitrary constant to . Also, by the first part of the theorem, antiderivatives of f {\displaystyle f} always exist when f {\displaystyle f} is continuous.
Nonelementary antiderivatives can often be evaluated using Taylor series. Even if a function has no elementary antiderivative, its Taylor series can always be integrated term-by-term like a polynomial, giving the antiderivative function as a Taylor series with the same radius of convergence. However, even if the integrand has a convergent ...
The following is a list of indefinite integrals (antiderivatives) of expressions involving the inverse trigonometric functions. For a complete list of integral formulas, see lists of integrals. The inverse trigonometric functions are also known as the "arc functions".
The following is a list of integrals (antiderivative functions) of logarithmic functions. For a complete list of integral functions, see list of integrals. Note: x > 0 is assumed throughout this article, and the constant of integration is omitted for simplicity.