Hello,
I am a long time user of Maple make the switch to Maxima. I am trying
something very trivial but I can't seem to get it to work.
My students are reviewing elementary graphing techniques and I wanted to
show them a few computer based examples. One example is plotting a circle. I
define my equation in Maxima (e.g. x^2 + y^2 + 5*x + 5*y - 6 = 0;) and have
tried a dozen different ways to use plot2d to get my graph. Every way either
gives an error, or it just sets there for few minutes and then returns an
empty output prompt. I can plot simple functions, but not an 'equation'. Any
ideas?
Thanks for helping a new user out.
Randy Keeling