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Logabs

-- Option variable: logabs Default value: false

When doing indefinite integration where logs are generated, e.g. integrate(1/x,x), the answer is given in terms of log(abs(...)) if logabs is true, but in terms of log(...) if logabs is false. For definite integration, the logabs:true setting is used, because here "evaluation" of the indefinite integral at the endpoints is often needed.

logabs:true;
diff(log(x),x);
diff(log(abs(x)),x);
integrate(1/x,x);

(%o1)                                true
(%i2) 

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