How can I integrate the composite root integral \int\sqrt{40t^2+e^t^2}dt?

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[tex]\int\sqrt{40t^2+e^t^2}dt[/tex]

That should be e^t^2.
How would I go about doing this?
 
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You can forget about a primitive in terms of elementary functions. It doesn't exist as is the case in most situations. What you could try is to write the integrand as a series expansion and integrate term by term.
 
Cyosis said:
You can forget about a primitive in terms of elementary functions. It doesn't exist as is the case in most situations. What you could try is to write the integrand as a series expansion and integrate term by term.
That's generally good advice, but the square root in this case is going to complicate this strategy a lot!