Re: What am I doing wrong with this code?
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- Subject: [mg82558] Re: What am I doing wrong with this code?
- From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:34:59 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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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.
Well, are you fooling yourself? The above command works very well on my
system (PC x86-32, Windows XP SP2, Mathematica 6.0.1) as you can see at
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jmg336/mathematica/seanincali.pdf
Try a fresh kernel (I suspect that 'y' got some conflicting definition
during your session).
Regards,
--
Jean-Marc