>>>>> "Jaime" == Jaime E Villate <villate@gnu.org> writes:
Jaime> 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.
Jaime> 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.
Jaime> That's not what happens in the Maxima version that I use (5.9.0 with
Jaime> GCL, under Debian GNU/Linux):
Jaime> (C1) plot2d(1/x, [x, -2, 2], [y, -10, 10])$
Jaime> (C2) plot2d(1/x, [x, -2, 2])$
Jaime> C1 gives the plot quickly. C2 gets Maxima stuck until I reset it.
Oh, I forgot. 5.9.0 has a different plotting algorithm than what's
currently in CVS. The y limits don't influence the sampling as much
any more, but plotting should be better too, as some of the old bug
reports show.
Ray