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by freemint 1660 days ago
This is a good question and the answer depends on what you mean by formula.

One could probably show that there exists no formula using a finite number of +,*,/,^. However one might be able to define functions which together with a finite number of operations from above allow to express solutions. However it is likely that calculating those helper functions even when they are well studied and known is basically solving a slightly different differential equation (or as you said integration problem).