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Calculus Level 4

1 π 0 0 1 ( x 5 y ) 1 / 6 e ( x + y ) d x d y = ? \frac {1}{\pi} \displaystyle \int_0^\infty \int_0^\infty \frac {1}{(x^5 y)^{1/6} e^{(x+y)}} \ dx\ dy = \ ?


The answer is 2.

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Pranav Arora
Apr 20, 2014

0 0 1 ( x 5 y ) 1 / 6 e ( x + y ) d x d y = ( 0 x 5 / 6 e x d x ) ( 0 y 1 / 6 e y d y ) = ( 0 x 1 / 6 1 e x d x ) ( 0 y 5 / 6 1 e y d y ) = Γ ( 1 6 ) Γ ( 5 6 ) \begin{aligned} \displaystyle \int_0^{\infty} \int_0^{\infty} \frac{1}{(x^5y)^{1/6} e^{(x+y)}}\,dx\,dy & =\left(\int_0^{\infty} x^{-5/6}e^{-x}\,dx \right)\left(\int_0^{\infty} y^{-1/6}e^{-y}\,dy\right)\\ &=\left(\int_0^{\infty} x^{1/6-1}e^{-x}\,dx\right)\left(\int_0^{\infty} y^{5/6-1}e^{-y}\,dy\right)\\ &=\Gamma \left(\frac{1}{6}\right) \Gamma \left(\frac{5}{6}\right) \\ \end{aligned}

Since

Γ ( x ) Γ ( 1 x ) = π sin ( π x ) \Gamma(x)\Gamma(1-x)=\frac{\pi}{\sin(\pi x)}

Hence, with x = 1 / 6 x=1/6 ,

Γ ( 1 6 ) Γ ( 5 6 ) = π sin ( π / 6 ) = 2 π \Gamma \left(\frac{1}{6}\right) \Gamma \left(\frac{5}{6}\right)=\frac{\pi}{\sin(\pi/6)}=\boxed{2\pi}

Nice.

Anish Puthuraya - 7 years, 1 month ago

Epic! I hadn't thought of that.

Finn Hulse - 7 years, 1 month ago

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Then how did you solve it? I would love to know any alternative approaches to this problem.

Pranav Arora - 7 years, 1 month ago

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I rearranged it into manageable pieces and integrated it.

Finn Hulse - 7 years, 1 month ago

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@Finn Hulse Would you mind showing us those "manangeable pieces"? :D

Pranav Arora - 7 years, 1 month ago

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@Pranav Arora Dude back down okay, why are you interrogating me about a silly calc problem?

Finn Hulse - 7 years, 1 month ago

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@Finn Hulse Was I being rude? I am sorry if you felt so, I am only trying to look for alternative approaches, and it would be great to know if there exists an elementary solution to this problem. I am new to gamma functions but I currently try to avoid it as much as I can. Sorry again.

Pranav Arora - 7 years, 1 month ago

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@Pranav Arora Oh, haha, yeah. I'm on an iPod right now, so LateX is going to be a bother. I'm so sorry, I thought you were like "Care to show us those "manageable pieces"? as if you were about to kill me. :O

Finn Hulse - 7 years, 1 month ago

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@Finn Hulse Ah ok, please take your time! :)

Pranav Arora - 7 years, 1 month ago

@Finn Hulse It's really impressive, a 13 year old solving Multi problems. Where did you learn how to?

Trevor B. - 7 years, 1 month ago

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@Trevor B. Well, that's kind of my specialty. First off, I'm 12 (don't tell the staff! @Sharky Kesa and @David Lee are with me in our secret gang). Yes, it's quite an interesting story.

In 5th grade, I was like a hipster dude. In 6th grade, I realized that being a hipster stunk and that I could be even cooler if I was some kind of super-smart jock dude! So I went on Khan Academy and learned all of this irrelevant junk about surface integrals, partial differentiation, and stuff like that. Unfortunately, aside from all that stuff, I had no idea how to do anything else except 5th grade math and college calculus. For example, after three months of memorizing vocabulary, perfecting my mental integration/differentiation powers, and memorizing the indefinite, integrated forms of trig functions, I remember asking myself "Wait... what does the little f f thing mean in front of the x x ?". I'm not joking. Although I had picked up math as just another attempt at being "cool", I started to realize how amazing and beautiful it was. I started liking math more than the attention it gave me at school. From there, over the summer, I went in and filled in everything I'd missed when I skipped into calculus. So now, I'm a college-level math geek sitting in Algebra 1 (remember, on the pretest to skip classes, they don't care if you don't know what an inequality is but you can take integrals of differential forms! :D). So yeah. That's why my Calculus rating is higher than all of my other ratings. It sucks to be carrying around all this useless junk now, but in college... you can fill in the rest. :D

Finn Hulse - 7 years, 1 month ago

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@Finn Hulse Because you mentioned me, you made me solve this awesome calculus question. Thanks, dude. :D

Sharky Kesa - 7 years, 1 month ago

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