Re: Plotting lists of functions
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- Subject: [mg53691] Re: Plotting lists of functions
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 02:02:21 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 1/22/05 at 3:51 AM, dbae at maths.warwick.ac.uk (David Epstein)
wrote:
>Try this in Mathematica:
>Plot[{1, 2}, {x, 0, 1}]
>listOfFunctions = Table[i, {i, 1, 2}] (*now listOfFunctions equals
>{1,2}*)
>Plot[listOfFunctions, {x, 0, 1}]
>Can anyone tell me a) WHY the first Plot instruction works and the
>second doesn't and b) How I can MAKE this kind of construction
>work.
This occurs because of the way Mathematica evaluates expressions in Plot. See section 1.9.1 of the Mathematica Book for an explanation. The "cure" is to force evaluation of the expression before Plot sees it. That is
Plot[Evaluate@listOfFunctions, {x,0,1}]
will do what you want
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