Strange plot2d behaviour



>>>>> "Jaime" == Jaime E Villate <villate@gnu.org> writes:

    Jaime> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:35:57PM +0200, Janos Blazi wrote:
    >> 
    >> When I give the command
    >> plot2d([f(x),g(x)],[x,-2,2]);
    >> (where f and g are well defined functions) then the plot is draw nicely, 
    >> just as I want it. But when I go back to my original command and change it 
    >> to
    >> plot2d([f(x),g(x)],[x,-0.5,1]);
    >> it does not work at all (and in fact it seems that Maxima does not work any 
    >> more).

    Jaime> It is always better to include a domain for y, to avoid running into
    Jaime> points where the function blows up.

Specifying a domain for y only limits what the plot shows.  The x axis
is still sampled around the singularity.  The plots, however, probably
look better if you do this.

Ray