[sage-support] Re: Bug with plotting cube roots

2009-03-20 Thread Jason Grout
ma...@mendelu.cz wrote: > > > On 20 Bře, 13:53, kcrisman wrote: > >> something like this, because there are too many similar things to >> catch. I also believe Maple does not plot the negative values. >> > > You are right, Maple plots x^(1/3) only for positive x. As a side > effect, if you t

[sage-support] Re: Bug with plotting cube roots

2009-03-20 Thread ma...@mendelu.cz
On 20 Bře, 13:53, kcrisman wrote: > something like this, because there are too many similar things to > catch. I also believe Maple does not plot the negative values. > You are right, Maple plots x^(1/3) only for positive x. As a side effect, if you try to plot the function y=(x^2-1)^(1/3) w

[sage-support] Re: Bug with plotting cube roots

2009-03-20 Thread kcrisman
> On Mar 20, 3:40 am, Bruce Bartlett > wrote: > > > When I type in > > > plot(x^(1/3), -1, 1) > > > Sage balks at me. Apparantly it doesn't understand that the cube root of a > > negative number is well defined. Is this a bug? I found no easy way to get > > around it. > > In the documentation fo

[sage-support] Re: Bug with plotting cube roots

2009-03-20 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, On Mar 20, 3:40 am, Bruce Bartlett wrote: > When I type in > > plot(x^(1/3), -1, 1) > > Sage balks at me. Apparantly it doesn't understand that the cube root of a > negative number is well defined. Is this a bug? I found no easy way to get > around it. In the documentation for plot (whic

[sage-support] Re: Bug with plotting cube roots

2009-03-20 Thread Ajay Rawat
No i don't think so it is plotting for me. On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Bruce Bartlett < brucehbartl...@googlemail.com> wrote: > When I type in > > plot(x^(1/3), -1, 1) > > Sage balks at me. Apparantly it doesn't understand that the cube root of a > negative number is well defined. Is this a