Re: Plotting of Sin(x)/x
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- Subject: [mg84183] Re: [mg84158] Plotting of Sin(x)/x
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:02:13 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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I don't understand what the problem is. If in 5.2 I evaluate, for example,
Plot[Sin[x]/x,{x,-Pi,Pi}]
I get exactly what I expect to see, with the curve seeming to pass
through the point {0,1}.
G de Graaf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Mathematica 5.2 to try plot
> some Sin[x}/x functions. That does not
> work ! It seems that Mathematica cannot
> handle this since it does not know that
> lim Sin[x}/x (x=0)= 1 ( Hmmmm !!)
>
>
> Anyone knows how to work around this ??
>
> Thank you,
>
> Ger de Graaf
> Delft University of Technology
>
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- Plotting of Sin(x)/x
- From: G de Graaf <ger__removethis__@ipact.nl>
- Plotting of Sin(x)/x