[net.math] Interesting equation

hopp@nbs-amrf.UUCP (06/13/84)

From the American Mathematical Monthly, Vol 91, No. 6 (June-July 
1984), p. 352:

     Miscellanea #128.

	Proper integrals are just like sums, we always say.  Are 
	they?  Could the equation

	       1		  infinity
	       /		    ----
	       |   -x		    \      -n
	       |  x  dx     =       /	  n
	      /			    ----
	       0		     n=1

	be true?

(Taken from G. Polya and G. Szego, Problems and Theorems in 
Analysis, Vol. 1, Springer, Berlin, 1972; Part I, Ch. 4, no.160).