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Re: Oddities of Plot[]

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  • Subject: [mg51139] Re: Oddities of Plot[]
  • From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
  • Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 04:34:12 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Uni Leipzig
  • References: <cjto4h$8k2$1@smc.vnet.net>
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Hi,

and

Plot[Evaluate[primitive], {x, 0, 1}]

does not help ??

Regards
  Jens

"Roger Mason" <rmason at esd.mun.ca> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:cjto4h$8k2$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Hello,
>
> Playing around in Mathematica 4 I came across this oddity:
>
> In[103]:=
> circle = Solve[r^2 == (x - h)^2 + (y - k)^2, y]
> Out[103]=
> {{y -> k - Sqrt[-h^2 + r^2 + 2 h x - x^2]}, {y ->
>         k + Sqrt[-h^2 + r^2 + 2 h x - x^2]}}
>
> In[104]:=
> primitivelow = y /. circle[[1]] /. {r -> 1 , h -> 0, k -> 0};
> primitivehigh = y /. circle[[2]] /. {r -> 1 , h -> 0, k -> 0};
> primitive = {primitivehigh, primitivelow}
> Out[106]=
> {1 - x^2, -1 - x^2}
>
> I don't see why this fails
>
> In[107]:=
> Plot[primitive, {x, 0, 1}]
> Plot::"plnr": "primitive is not a
> machine-size real number at x = 4.166666666666666`*^-8."
>
> while this works
>
> In[108]:=
> Plot[{1 - x^2, -1 - x^2}, {x, 0, 1}]
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roger Mason
>



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