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Re: What am I doing wrong with this code?

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  • Subject: [mg82550] Re: What am I doing wrong with this code?
  • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:30:53 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Uni Leipzig
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  • Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Hi,

(1/5 -1)^(1/2) is complex ??
In Matheamtica 5.x you can only plot the second function
in the interval y in (0,1]
Regards
   Jens

sean_incali wrote:
> I think I'm having a brain fart. Seriously...
> 
> Plot[{1/(1 + y^2), (1/y - 1)^(1/2)}, {y,  0, 5}]
> 
> What is wrong with that code? Maybe it's not solvable in mathematica?
> 
> I'm trying to plot nullclines of a system of ODEs. and those function
> up there are them. I just can't get mathematica to plot them in the
> same graph.
> 
> I get an error message saying...
> 
>>From In[22]:=
> (1/y - 1)^(1/2)  is not a machine-size real number at y =
> 1.0000001666666667`.
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> sean
> 
> 


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