Re: Strange behaviour of Plot
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- Subject: [mg107592] Re: [mg107588] Strange behaviour of Plot
- From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr at cox.net>
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:32:37 -0500 (EST)
- Reply-to: hanlonr at cox.net
Your function is discontinuous at integer values of m since you set Summand2 to 0 for j=m. The continuous function that you plotted reflects the limit
Limit[2/((j - m)^2 d^2) (-3 +
Exp[-(((j - m)^2 d^2)/2)] (3 + 2 (j - m)^2 d^2)), j -> m]
1
So at the integer values of m you are subtracting 1 (using 0 rather than 1 for Summand2[m, m, d] ) and arriving at the negative values.
Bob Hanlon
---- "Very Bad Mother..." <shinytinkerbell at googlemail.com> wrote:
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Hi,
I've found it quite puzzling. Pls, have a look.
I define the following functions:
Summand2[j_, m_, \[CapitalDelta]_] :=
If[j == m, 0,
2/((j - m)^2 \[CapitalDelta]^2) (-3 +
Exp[-(((j - m)^2 \[CapitalDelta]^2)/2)] (3 +
2 (j - m)^2 \[CapitalDelta]^2))];
sigma[m_, Nm_, \[CapitalDelta]_] := NSum[Summand2[j, m, \
[CapitalDelta]], {j, 0, Nm - 1}];
where j and m are supposed to be integers and \[CapitalDelta] to be a
"double" (in C-terms).
Now, I'd like to plot the sigma function:
Plot[sigma[m, 4, 6], {m, 0, 3}]
So, ofcourse, I obtain a plot of a continues function, for all ms
between 0 and 3. From this plot one can find that the values of sigma
for integers are positive and about 0.6. However, what is interesting,
if one evaluates explicitly sigma[m, 4, 6] for m=0, 1, 2, 3, one will
find that actually the values are negative about -0.3.
How is that possible? It's really confusing. Any help appreciated.
Thank you in advance,
--
Kind regards,
tinkerbell