I was wondering, how would one compute the value of

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In summary, the conversation discussed the difficulty in computing the value of the integral \int\limits_{0}^{\infty+i\infty}\frac{\sin t}{t} \mbox{d}t, also represented as \mbox{Si}(\infty+i\infty), due to the sin integral behaving unpredictably for large imaginary numbers. Wolfram Alpha suggests the answer is a complex infinity with an unknown or undefined complex argument.
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I was wondering, how would one compute the value of [tex]\mbox{Si}(\infty+i\infty)[/tex] which is the same as [tex]\int\limits_{0}^{\infty+i\infty}\frac{\sin t}{t} \mbox{d}t [/tex] where i is the imaginary unit, the principal square root of minus one.

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Wolfram alpha says the answer is complex infinity, "an infinite number in the complex plane whose complex argument is unknown or undefined."

The problem is that the sin integral does not behave very nicely for large imaginary numbers. It blows up. It is only well-behaved for large z if the imaginary part remains bounded.
 

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