Examples
Examples of elementary functions include:
and
This last function is equal to the inverse cosine trigonometric function in the entire complex domain. Hence, is an elementary function. An example of a function that is not elementary is the error function
a fact that cannot be seen directly from the definition of elementary function but can be proven using the Risch algorithm.
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