Re: Don't understand Plot behavior
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- Subject: [mg39994] Re: [mg39971] Don't understand Plot behavior
- From: Ken Levasseur <klevasseur at mac.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 04:45:32 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Alain:
Evaluate needs to be at the top level of the first argument of plot to have
the effect that it has in your first example.
I had defined f=#^2& earlier.
This is what happens in your first example
In[11]:=
Hold[Evaluate[f[t]]]
Out[11]=
Hold[t^2]
Now the second:
In[12]:=
Hold[{Evaluate[f[t]], 0}]
Out[12]=
Hold[{Evaluate[f[t]], 0}]
If you rearrange the the expression, you get what you want:
In[13]:=
Hold[Evaluate[{f[t], 0}]]
Out[13]=
Hold[{t^2, 0}]
Ken Levasseur
UMass Lowell
> From: Alain Cochard <al2 at noos.fr>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 03:03:58 -0500 (EST)
> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Subject: [mg39994] [mg39971] Don't understand Plot behavior
>
>
> In[1]:= f[t_]:= D[t , t]
>
> In[2]:= Plot[Evaluate[f[t]] , {t, 0, 1}]
>
> Out[2]= -Graphics- [The plot is fine]
>
> In[3]:= Plot[{Evaluate[f[t]],0} , {t, 0, 1}]
>
> -8
> General::ivar: 4.16667 10 is not a valid variable.
>
> [...]
>
> General::stop: Further output of General::ivar
> will be suppressed during this calculation.
>
> Plot::plnr: Evaluate[f[t]] is not a machine-size real number at t =
> -8
> 4.16667 10 .
>
> [...]
>
> General::stop: Further output of Plot::plnr
> will be suppressed during this calculation.
>
> Out[3]= -Graphics- [The plot just shows the axes]
>
> In[4]:= harhar=Evaluate[f[t]]; Plot[{harhar,0} , {t, 0, 1}]
>
> Out[4]= -Graphics- [The plot is fine]
>
> In[5]:= $Version
>
> Out[5]= 4.1 for Sun Solaris (November 8, 2000)
>
>
> Is this behavior normal? Thx in advance.
>
> Alain Cochard
> al2 at noos.fr
>
>