Re: Graphing Functions for an idiot
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- Subject: [mg27250] Re: Graphing Functions for an idiot
- From: "Paul Lutus" <nospam at nosite.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 03:41:19 -0500 (EST)
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"nsnn" <dontreply at tothis.ok?> wrote in message news:96asca$6f6 at smc.vnet.net... > Hi, It's Idiot Here.... > > After spending an afternoon with the Mathematica Book, 4th Ed. by S.W. I > have found that I must be an official Idiot because I cannot figure out how > to do simple graphing of functions. > > Could someone please help me - step by step - realizing that you are > instructing an idiot who -tried- figuring this out from the book - to graph > simple functions. > > Here is an example of what I am looking for: > > Graph the function f(x)=x^3-3x > > I read the section on the command "Plot" and no matter what I do I either > get a graph that doesn't represent the function I am trying to graph or > errors. Plot[x^3-3x,{x,-1,2}] -- Paul Lutus www.arachnoid.com