7.12 problem Exercise 20.13, page 220

Internal problem ID [4075]

Book: Ordinary Differential Equations, By Tenenbaum and Pollard. Dover, NY 1963
Section: Chapter 4. Higher order linear differential equations. Lesson 20. Constant coefficients
Problem number: Exercise 20.13, page 220.
ODE order: 4.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_high_order, _quadrature]]

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {y^{\prime \prime \prime \prime }=0} \end {gather*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 21

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$4)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = \frac {1}{6} x^{3} c_{1}+\frac {1}{2} c_{2} x^{2}+c_{3} x +c_{4} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 22

DSolve[y''''[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to x (x (c_4 x+c_3)+c_2)+c_1 \\ \end{align*}