Computing the sine integral

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This article studies the computation of the following improper real integral:

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Here, the value at 0 is assigned to be 1. (The function being integrated is termed the sinc function and its indefinite integral is termed the sine integral.

Computation

We first consider the function:

zeizz

This is a holomorphic function and its imaginary part is (sinx)/(x).