Re: Limiting range of variables when defining funxtions
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- Subject: [mg74703] Re: [mg74676] Limiting range of variables when defining funxtions
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 04:16:40 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Here's one way: Multiply your function by Boole[expr], where expr gives
the restrictions. For example:
Plot3D[Boole[0<=x && 0<=y<=1-x](x^2-y^2), {x,-1,1},{y,-1,1}];
Michelasso wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> my problem is that I would like to plot a 3d graphic of a function of
> two variables, restricted to domain D={(x,y): x>= 0, y>=0, y <= 1-x}.
>
> I thought to define the function in this way:
> test[x_,y_/; y <= 1-x]:= x+y
>
> but this seems not to work, while it works for functions of one
> variable, i.e.:
> test2[x_/; x<= 1]:= 3x
>
> So, am I doing some syntax error, or is there some other kind of
> problems with my definition?
>
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