Mathematica 5 hangs when rendering plots with large numbers
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- Subject: [mg45013] Mathematica 5 hangs when rendering plots with large numbers
- From: Alejandro Luque <btpa16 at btp5x36.phy.uni-bayreuth.de>
- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 06:05:56 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Universitaet Bayreuth
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I have Mathematica 5 running on a SuSE Linux with XFree86 v11.0. My
problem arises whenever I try to plot a graph with large numbers. For
example
ListPlot[{{1, 1}, {1*^6, 2}}]
Then Mathematica hangs while rendering this plot. It stays
(apparently) forever saying Running...Rendering...Untitled-1 and I
have no way to stop it without killing the whole Mathematica. If I
take a look at the processor activity I see that is the X server who
is taking all the processor time. What is it doing? Is this a
problem of Mathematica or of the X server? Have somebody experienced the
same problem? BTW, if I write instead
P = ListPlot[{{1, 1}, {1*^6, 2}}, DisplayFunction->Identity]
Export["p.eps", P]
the EPS file is generated flawlessly and can be viewed without
problems outside Mathematica.
I have also made some 'experiments' (I have to admit that I'm a
physicist) and found that the maximum number that can be plotted lies
around 975609.78. Any idea about what does it mean?
Best regards for all.
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Alejandro Luque
Universitaet Bayreuth
Theoretische Physik IV
95440 Bayreuth (Germany)
Tel. +49-(0)921/55-3328
e-mail: <alejandro.luque at uni-bayreuth.de>