Re: Asymptote strangeness...
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- Subject: [mg38848] Re: Asymptote strangeness...
- From: Alois Steindl <Alois.Steindl at jet2web.cc>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 03:18:46 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Inst. f. Mechanics II, TU Vienna
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Mike Summers <mike at miscanthus.net> writes:
> It seems to me that this:
>
> f[x] = (x + 2)/(Abs[x] - 2)
>
>
> should have asymptotes at 2 & -2.
>
> Plot[Evaluate[f[x]], {x, -5, 5}] only shows the asymptote at 2.
>
Hello,
just try to figure out the situation close to x=-2 by hand, its
extremely easy.
Alois
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