How can the integral of exp (-1/x) be solved?

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Hi to everyone,

I am new in this site ( I hope this is the right place to ask my question).

Does anyone know how to solve the integral of: exp (-1/x)


I know that integral of exp(-x) = -exp(-x)+C but I have been trying to solve this for a while and I can not get the aswer.

I would appreciate any help.

Thanks
 
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Where did you get that integral from? It's not a particularly easy one. Can you give us some context, perhaps also what you know about integrals?
 

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