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A constant multiplied on will stay there

One of the most fundamental properties of the integral is that multiplying by a constant before doing the integral is the same as doing the integral and then multiplying by a constant. However, the way it's presented here makes it look like a rule for algebraic manipulation – I can move a constant multiple in and out of the integral sign. I do actually use it this way when I want to do algebraic manipulation – it comes in handy when I'm creating a reduction formula, for example. But most of the time when I do an integral, I don't use it that way at all.

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