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Re: Bug in Plot?

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• Subject: [mg88654] Re: Bug in Plot?
• From: "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net>
• Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 15:15:51 -0400 (EDT)
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I had no problem with any of those examples on Windows Vista, Mathematica 
6.0.2.

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David Park
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"John Stone" <stn at u.washington.edu> wrote in message 
news:g03v3b$bo2$1 at smc.vnet.net...
>I recently upgraded to v 6.0.2.  A plotting program I wrote years ago
> which has worked on many previous versions suddenly broke.  I seem to
> have isolated the following problem:
>
> For me, this command produces a simple plot:
>
> a = 0.25; Plot[1 - Exp[-a * t], {t, 0, 10}]
>
> As does this:
>
> a = 0.25; Plot[1 - Exp[-a * t], {t, 0.5, 10}]
>
> As does this:
>
> a = 0.0025; Plot[1 - Exp[-a * t], {t, 0, 1000}]
>
> But this causes Mathematica on my machine to hang indefinitely:
>
> a = 0.0025; Plot[1 - Exp[-a * t], {t, 50, 1000}]
>
> I have to quit and re-start the kernel to recover.
>
> Can anyone reproduce this behavior?  If so, can anyone suggest why this
> happens, or suggest a work around?  Thanks is advance for all help with
> this.
>
> John Stone (v 6.0.2 / Mac OS-X 10.5.2)
>