Re: Plot of x=y^2
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- Subject: [mg45067] Re: Plot of x=y^2
- From: Alois Steindl <Alois.Steindl at tuwien.ac.at>
- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 07:48:12 -0500 (EST)
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Ruben Garcia <rubgb at yahoo.com> writes: > Hello everybody, > I'm just a beginner with Mathematica and I'd like to > know if it's possible to plot the parabola x=y^2 in > the range -10 to 10. I'm trying using y=Sqrt[x] but > that doesn't work for negative x. > Many thanks in advance, > Ruben > Hello, I would bet that you are a little bit confused. Should x really be in the range [-10, 10]? Do you know something about complex numbers? Maybe you try to do the graphic by hand first and think about it. Alois