8.1 Problem number 41

\[ \int \frac {1}{x^2 \sqrt {b x^2}} \, dx \]

Optimal antiderivative \[ -\frac {1}{2 x \sqrt {b \,x^{2}}} \]

command

integrate(1/x^2/(b*x^2)^(1/2),x, algorithm="giac")

Giac 1.9.0-11 via sagemath 9.6 output

\[ -\frac {1}{2 \, \sqrt {b} x^{2} \mathrm {sgn}\left (x\right )} \]

Giac 1.7.0 via sagemath 9.3 output

\[ \mathit {sage}_{0} x \]________________________________________________________________________________________