@westofer I never really took a lot of calculus in school. Later when I've done it for my personal stuff (mostly related to physics) I have never bothered making the c explicit.

Also my main maths tool of choice, Maxima, doesn't include it either.

When does it really matter?

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well it matters when giving math exams. Here they cut 1 point if you failed to write the +C in the solution of an integration problem.

@mur2501 @westofer right, but why do they do that if no one ever bothers in practice?

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