Re: Mathematica 5 hangs when rendering plots with large numbers
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- Subject: [mg45077] Re: Mathematica 5 hangs when rendering plots with large numbers
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 06:21:02 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,
you should try it with *small* numbers < 10-6 on you axes to see the
same effect. It is a bug in the formating of exponents on graphics.
I guss the frontend hangs up when it tyr to get the font
metric of you X-fonts.
Regards
Jens
Alejandro Luque wrote:
>
> 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.
> --
> ----
> Alejandro Luque
> Universitaet Bayreuth
> Theoretische Physik IV
> 95440 Bayreuth (Germany)
> Tel. +49-(0)921/55-3328
> e-mail: <alejandro.luque at uni-bayreuth.de>