Toady I read that integral of 0 is C. because integral = antiderivative.
How can this be true, because we know that an integral is the area under a curve...and there is no area under the line x = 0, then how its area will be any Constant(after integrating the curve)
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$\begingroup$Fundamental theorem of calculus:
$$\int_a^bf(x)\ dx=F(b)-F(a)$$
For your case:
$$\int_a^b0\ dx=C-C=0$$
$\endgroup$ 4 $\begingroup$You're confusing definite and indefinite integrals.
A definite integral $\int_a^b \cdots dx$ can (under some common conditions) be interpreted as the area under a curve, but an indefinite integral $\int \cdots dx$ cannot -- it's not even a number but a function (well, a family of functions) defined simply by the requirement that its derivative must be the integrand.
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