An integral theorem of Gauss
Gauss proved in 1818 that the value of integral is unchanged if x and y are replaced by (x + y)/2 and √(xy), i.e. if you replaced x and y with their arithmetic mean and geometric mean [1]. So, for example, if you wanted to compute you could instead compute Notice that the coefficients of
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