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Re: Limiting range of variables when defining funxtions

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  • Subject: [mg74703] Re: [mg74676] Limiting range of variables when defining funxtions
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 04:16:40 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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  • Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

Here's one way:  Multiply your function by Boole[expr], where expr gives 
the restrictions.  For example:

Plot3D[Boole[0<=x && 0<=y<=1-x](x^2-y^2), {x,-1,1},{y,-1,1}];

Michelasso wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> my problem is that I would like to plot a 3d graphic of a function of
> two variables, restricted to domain D={(x,y): x>= 0, y>=0, y <= 1-x}.
> 
> I thought to define the function in this way:
> test[x_,y_/; y <= 1-x]:= x+y
> 
> but this seems not to work, while it works for functions of one
> variable, i.e.:
> test2[x_/; x<= 1]:= 3x
> 
> So, am I doing some syntax error, or is there some other kind of
> problems with my definition?
> 

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