Earlier post sent prematurely by acciident, sorry! On Thursday, July 26, 2012 3:47:34 PM UTC+1, Anthony Wickstead wrote: > > I don't think I am doing anything stupid, but I am fairly new to Sage. > > I am using Sage 5.0 (Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit, running under Virtualbox) but > the same behaviour occurs with Sage 4.7 running under Debian (not sure of > version). I am trying to plot the graph of h(a,x) fo a range of values of a. > > def h(a,x): > if x<=a: > return 2-sqrt(1-(1-x/a)^4) > else: > return sqrt(1-((x-a)/(2-a))^6) > plot(sqrt(x),(x,0,1)) #Works fine > [h(.5,x) for x in [0..2,step=.1]] #Returns plausible looking > list > plot(h(.5,x),(x,0,2)) #shows a horizontal > straight line graph (approximately zero) > plot(sqrt(x),(x,0,1) #another straight line, approximately sqrt(2)
Is this a weird bug or am I doing something wrong? Tony Wickstead -- -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
