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Re: Plot of x=y^2

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  • Subject: [mg45089] Re: Plot of x=y^2
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 06:21:26 -0500 (EST)
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On 12/15/03 at 6:02 AM, rubgb at yahoo.com (Ruben Garcia) wrote:

> 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.

Probably the simplest way to do this is to use ParametricPlot as in

ParametricPlot[{t^2, t}, {t, -10, 10}];
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