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Problem with transformation rules in Plot

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• Subject: [mg48498] Problem with transformation rules in Plot
• From: Alain Cochard <alain at geophysik.uni-muenchen.de>
• Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 04:22:08 -0400 (EDT)
• Reply-to: alain at geophysik.uni-muenchen.de
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hello.  I would be grateful if someone could explain to me the
following behavior (i.e., is it normal? why?), or point me to a
relevant part of a manual:

Mathematica 4.0 for Linux
Copyright 1988-1999 Wolfram Research, Inc.
 -- Motif graphics initialized -- 

In[1]:= f[x_]:=a x ; g[x_]:=2 a x ;

In[2]:= Plot[ f[x]/.{a->1} , {x,0,1}]  (* Fine *)

Out[2]= -Graphics-

In[3]:= {f[x],g[x]}/.{a->1} 

Out[3]= {x, 2 x}  (* Fine, just checking *)

In[4]:= Plot[{f[x],g[x]}/.{a->1} , {x,0,1}]

Plot::plnr: {f[x], g[x]} /. {a -> 1} is not a machine-size real number at x = 
              -8
    4.16667 10  .

Plot::plnr: {f[x], g[x]} /. {a -> 1} is not a machine-size real number at x = 
    0.040567.

Plot::plnr: {f[x], g[x]} /. {a -> 1} is not a machine-size real number at x = 
    0.0848088.

General::stop: Further output of Plot::plnr
     will be suppressed during this calculation.

Out[4]= -Graphics-

(* So the question is: why does it work for f[x] alone, and not for
f[x] and g[x]? *)

(* The following works fine, but is there a better workaround? *)

In[5]:= data={a->1} ; Plot[{ f[x]/.data , g[x]/.data }, {x,0,1}]


Many thanks in advance,
Alain Cochard

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  • Re: Problem with transformation rules in Plot
    • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz@mimuw.edu.pl>