Re: Why do two equivalent expression give different answers?
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- Subject: [mg47404] Re: Why do two equivalent expression give different answers?
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 05:46:02 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,
Plot[] has the attribute HoldAll and you must force
Mathematica to evaluate the arguments in the
first case
Plot[Evaluate[Table[t^c, {c, 1, 2}]], {t, 0.5, 1.2}]
Regards
Jens
Konrad Den Ende wrote:
>
> I started Mathematica and went:
>
> Plot[
> Table[t^c, {c, 1, 2}],
> {t,0.5, 1.2} ]
> but it didn't like it.
>
> So i computed Table[t^c, {c, 1, 4}] explicitly in an other cell and then
> pasted the result into the expression as follows
> Plot[
> {t,t^2},
> {t,0.5, 1.2} ]
> and then it went well.
>
> So i have two wonderings.
> a) How come there's a difference?!
> b) How do i make Mathematica accept what i try to do?
>
> --
>
> Kindly
> Konrad
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