Re: Plots with Variable Limits?
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- Subject: [mg24150] Re: [mg24100] Plots with Variable Limits?
- From: BobHanlon at aol.com
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 02:12:03 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
In a message dated 6/27/2000 1:01:41 AM, siegman at stanford.edu writes:
>I want to make a test plot of a function f[x,a] versus x for some
>trial value of the parameter a without fixing that parameter for
>subsequent cells, e.g. something like
>
> Plot[ f[r,a], {x,-2a,2a} ] /. a->10
>
>If I try this, Mathematica gives me a "Plot::plln" error -- but then
>
>goes ahead and makes the correct plot anyway.
>
>I can of course turn off the error -- but what's a better, but still
>clean and simple, way to accomplish this.
>
With[{a = 10}, Plot[ f[x, a], {x, -2a, 2a} ] ];
Block[{a = 10}, Plot[ f[x, a], {x, -2a, 2a} ] ];
Module[{a = 10}, Plot[ f[x, a], {x, -2a, 2a} ] ];
Bob Hanlon