Re: Plotting of Sin(x)/x
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg84190] Re: Plotting of Sin(x)/x
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:26:07 -0500 (EST)
On 12/12/07 at 5:13 AM, drmajorbob at bigfoot.com (DrMajorBob) wrote:
>This works fine in versions 5.2 and 6:
>Plot[Sin[x]/x, {x, -Pi, Pi}]
On either version 5.2 or 6 it will be very platform dependent as
to whether this works or not. As long as the automatic sampling
algorithm on your specific platform doesn't sample too close to
x = 0, this will work. But if it does sample at x = 0 it will fail.
Plot doesn't simplify expressions. Instead, it merely
substitutes a numeric value for x then evaluates the result. And
this process will give 0/0 if x is 0.
With version 6, the solution is to use the built in function Sinc.
With earlier versions, you can define sinc[x] as follows:
sinc[0]=1;
sinc[0.]=1;
sinc[x]:=Sin[x]/x
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