Question Solve (a) $\int_{0}^{100}\left[\tan^{-1}x\right] dx$
$\left(b\right)$ $\int_{0}^{2\pi}\left[\cot^{-1}x\right]dx $
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Book's Answer$\left(a\right)$$\int_{0}^{\tan1}\left[\tan^{-1}x\right]dx$+$\int_{\tan1}^{100}$$\left[\tan^{-1}x\right]$dx=$\int_{0}^{tan1}0.dx$+$\int_{\tan1}^{100}1dx$
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The floor function, which is denoted by $\lfloor x \rfloor$, gives the greatest integer for the real number $x$.
For the inverse tangent function on the interval $[0,100]$ its value lies between zero and its asymptotic value of $\pi/2$ which it approaches from below (this information comes from knowing what the graph of the inverse tangnet function looks like and is a very important skill to have).
Knowing all this we now need to establish for what values of $x$ is $\tan^{-1} x$ is less than one and for what values of $x$ is $\tan^{-1} x$ greater than one for $x \in [0,100]$.
As the inverse tangent function monotonically increases from zero when $x = 0$ to a value between one and two when $x = 100$ (as $\tan^{-1} (100) < 2$), finding when $\tan^{-1} (x) = 1$ we see this occurs when $x = \tan 1$.
So for our integral we have \begin{align*} \int^{100}_0 \lfloor \tan^{-1} x \rfloor \, dx &= \int^{\tan 1}_0 \lfloor \tan^{-1} x \rfloor \, dx + \int^{100}_{\tan 1} \lfloor \tan^{-1} x \rfloor \, dx\\ &= \int^{\tan 1}_0 0 \, dx + \int^{100}_{\tan 1} 1 \, dx\\ &= 100 - \tan 1. \end{align*}
Your integral for the inverse cotangent function can be now be done in a similar fashion.