On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 02:23:21PM +0100, Jaime E. Villate wrote:
> It is always better to include a domain for y, to avoid running into
> points where the function blows up.
And on Wed, 01 Oct 2003 09:57:08 -0400, Raymond Toy replied:
> 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.
That's not what happens in the Maxima version that I use (5.9.0 with
GCL, under Debian GNU/Linux):
(C1) plot2d(1/x, [x, -2, 2], [y, -10, 10])$
(C2) plot2d(1/x, [x, -2, 2])$
C1 gives the plot quickly. C2 gets Maxima stuck until I reset it.
Jaime