Re: How to set y always greater than or equal to x for a function?
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- Subject: [mg46586] Re: How to set y always greater than or equal to x for a function?
- From: "John Jowett" <John.Jowett at cern.ch>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:04:38 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: CERN
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Plot3D[If[y - x > 0, Sqrt[y - x], 0], {x, -100, 100}, {y, -100, 100}]
is one simple way if you are happy with setting the value to zero elsewhere.
JMJ
"Albert Franco" <francoatnsuok at earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> I recently purchased Mathematica 5.0, and I am in the process of
> learning how to take advantage of it's many features.
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> This is an example of one line I would like to calculate in Mathematica:
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> Plot3D[Sqrt[y-x],{x,-100,100},{y,-100,100}];
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> How can I best edit this line to make y always greater than or equal to x
during
> calculation so the program doesn't try to take the square root of a
> negative number?
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> Any help will be appreciated.
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> Albert Franco
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