{VERSION 4 0 "IBM INTEL NT" "4.0" } {USTYLETAB {CSTYLE "Maple Input" -1 0 "Courier" 0 1 255 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 }{CSTYLE "Hyperlink" -1 17 "" 0 1 0 128 128 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 }{CSTYLE "" 0 21 "" 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 }{CSTYLE " Help Heading" -1 26 "" 1 14 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 }{PSTYLE "Norm al" -1 0 1 {CSTYLE "" -1 -1 "" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 }0 0 0 -1 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0 }{PSTYLE "Text Output" -1 2 1 {CSTYLE "" -1 -1 "Courier" 1 10 0 0 255 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 1 }1 0 0 -1 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0 }{PSTYLE "Warning" 2 7 1 {CSTYLE "" -1 -1 "" 0 1 0 0 255 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 }0 0 0 -1 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0 }{PSTYLE "Error" 7 8 1 {CSTYLE "" -1 -1 "" 0 1 255 0 255 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 }0 0 0 -1 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0 }} {SECT 0 {PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 0 "" }}{SECT 0 {PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT 26 7 "Advice:" }{TEXT -1 34 " Plotting functions vs expressions" }} {PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 51 "Usually one plots expressions in Maple, f or example" }}{EXCHG {PARA 0 "> " 0 "" {MPLTEXT 1 0 24 "plot(x^2-1, x \+ = 0 .. 1);" }{TEXT -1 0 "" }}}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 176 "Note that \+ the independent variable is used in specifying the interval on which t o plot. If you left this out, Maple would not know what variable to u se, resulting in an error:" }}{EXCHG {PARA 0 "> " 0 "" {MPLTEXT 1 0 20 "plot(x^2-1, 0 .. 1);" }}{PARA 8 "" 1 "" {TEXT -1 26 "Plotting erro r, empty plot" }}}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 188 "It is also possible to plot functions rather than expressions. This is particularly useful \+ with functions that are meant to be called only with numerical, rather than symbolic, arguments." }}{EXCHG {PARA 0 "> " 0 "" {MPLTEXT 1 0 15 "f:= x -> x^2-1:" }}}{EXCHG {PARA 0 "> " 0 "" {MPLTEXT 1 0 16 "plot (f, 0 .. 1);" }}}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 109 "In this case you do not specify the name of the variable. If you did, you would get strange- looking results:" }}{EXCHG {PARA 0 "> " 0 "" {MPLTEXT 1 0 20 "plot(f, \+ x = 0 .. 1);" }{TEXT -1 0 "" }}}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 72 "If you wi sh to label the axes in this style of plot, you should use the " } {MPLTEXT 0 21 6 "labels" }{TEXT -1 8 " option." }}{EXCHG {PARA 0 "> " 0 "" {MPLTEXT 1 0 35 "plot(f, 0 .. 1, labels=[x,\"f(x)\"]);" }{TEXT -1 0 "" }}}}{SECT 0 {PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT 26 10 "See also: " } {HYPERLNK 17 "plot" 2 "plot" "" }{TEXT -1 2 ", " }{HYPERLNK 17 "plot3d " 2 "plot3d" "" }{TEXT -1 2 ", " }{HYPERLNK 17 "plot options" 2 "plot, options" "" }{TEXT -1 2 ", " }{HYPERLNK 17 "plot3d options" 2 "plot3d, option" "" }{TEXT -1 2 ", " }{HYPERLNK 17 "Defining functions" 2 "Defi ning_functions" "" }{TEXT -1 2 ", " }{HYPERLNK 17 "Error: cannot evalu ate boolean" 2 "Error:cannot_evaluate_boolean" "" }{TEXT -1 2 ", " } {HYPERLNK 17 "Plotting error, empty plot" 2 "Plotting_error:empty_plot " "" }}}{SECT 0 {PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT 26 23 "Maple Advisor Database " }{TEXT -1 15 " R. Israel 1998" }}}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 0 "" }}} {MARK "2 0 0" 2 }{VIEWOPTS 1 1 0 1 1 1803 1 1 1 1 }{PAGENUMBERS 0 1 2 33 1 1 }