Constant of the double integral in real application

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Assume you have the double integral,

$$ \iint f(x,y)dxdy $$ and want to find the answer by first integrating on $x$ and then integrating on $y$. we know that for each partial integration there is a constant. Now my question is, how to find the constant in the real applications?

I really appreciate if somebody explains that with an example.

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The real question is why you would want to calculate an indefinite double integral. If for some really weird reason you wanted to, you would first write a constant for the integration by $x$, and when integrating with respect to $y$ you would integrate this constant and then include a new constant. Something like this is done when finding the potential function of a vector field.

In any "real application" you would not be calculating an indefinite integral (this is a terrible notation and worse name for an antiderivative), so this is a non-issue.