General Partial Fraction Question:
When you're doing partial fractions and have say,
As+D/(x^2+1) + Cs+D/(x^2+4) = 4s+8,
You cross multiply and get all those terms, then you look at the coefficients and like powers to generate equations.

What if instead of 4s+8, we had e^(pi*-s)+1.
Does that count as a power of s, or is that a constant?
We have positive powers of s on the left side, but what is that power?

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General Partial Fraction Question: 
When you're doing partial fractions and have say, 
As+D/(x^2+1) + Cs+D/(x^2+4) = 4s+8, 
You cross multiply and get all those terms, then you look at the coefficients and like powers to generate equations.

What if instead of 4s+8, we had e^(pi*-s)+1. 
Does that count as a power of s, or is that a constant? 
We have positive powers of s on the left side, but what is that power?

phi · Answer

if you have an exponential on the right side, I don't think you can do partial fractions