On May 15, 2008, at 11:44 PM, Dan Pillone wrote: > Hi, > > I am running SAGE as a VM on a windows computer. > > This is somewhat related to plotting the cube root of x, but I can't > find any method to plot the graph of x^x correctly. The best plot I > get is only correct for nonnegative values of x. Likewise, > > plot(lambda x: RR(x).nth_root(x)) > > (which was the suggestion for cube roots) doesn't work for here. > > Is there a way to plot x^x correctly?
This is because x^x is not real-valued for negative x (except at a discrete set of values). Unlike the cube root case, one can't even pick a branch that makes it real-valued. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
