Re: machine size real numbers?
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- Subject: [mg35812] Re: [mg35800] machine size real numbers?
- From: "Y.A.Tesiram" <yas at pcomm.hfi.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 02:41:39 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi Rick,
Square brackets around the Sin and Cos or indeed around any other
function (e.g. Tan[x], ArcSin[2.0*t], f[x])
e.g. x[t_]:= 1 + Cos[2000*Pi*t] + Sin[4000*Pi*t]
and vvv
Plot[x[t], {t, 0, 8000*Pi}]
^^^
Yas
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Rick Dyer wrote:
> In[1]:=
> x[t_] := 1 + Cos(2000*Pi*t) + Sin(4000*Pi*t)
>
> In[2]:=
> Plot[x, {t, 0, 8000*Pi}]
>
> Plot::"plnr": x is not a machine-size real number at t =
> 0.0010471975511965976
>
> Plot::"plnr": x is not a machine-size real number at t =
> 1019.5597016296903
>
> Plot::"plnr": x is not a machine-size real number at t =
> 2131.4776207838036
>
> General::"stop": Further output of Plot :: "plnr" will be suppressed
> during this calculation
>
> I am trying to plot the function x(t) defined above, same thing
> happens when i try to plot other similar functions always get an error
> saying that the machine size number is nor real, I have tried to find
> an answer in this message group, as well as the mathematica help
> online and built in, if someone knows what is going on please help me.
>
> My computer is an AMD 1Gig with 256MG of ram, if that is of
> consequence. Windows XP pro
>
> Any help would be appreciated
>
> Thanks Rick
>
>