What is the definite integral of 0?

1 Answer
Jun 30, 2015

There's no single answer if there were to be no boundaries. Since there are boundaries:

#d/(dx)[C] = 0# where #C# is any constant.

#int_a^b f(x)dx# can be taken as #sum_(x_i=a)^(b) f(x_i) Deltax_i#, so with #f(x) = 0#:

#sum_(x_i=a)^(b) 0 Deltax_i = 0sum_(x_i=a)^(b) Deltax_i = 0#

Or, you could say that #f(x) = 0#, thus it has no area between itself and the x-axis when restricted to a boundary.