I'm trying to calculate the length of a curve from a polynomial in Mathematica and for some reason Integrate doesn't complete, it just runs until I abort the execution.
58.1735 - 36.4175 x + 7.10945 x^2 - 0.538311 x^3 + 0.0138115 x^4
Is a part of an integration like this:
where "koordfitprim" is the polynom above (i.e. what is integrated is in fact the square root of 1 + the above polynom^2).
Any ideas why this wouldn't execute?