Is this one of those situations where '0,1' means 'true, false' instead
of the integers?
Perhaps I still don't quite get it.
I know about (setq A) in lisp.
But, I thought that the function produced in (%o4) below was a real
valued function.
Otherwise, how does one multiply by the real numbers in the
expressions?
So, it seems that the natural thing is that after entering the (%i4)
operation, one should be able to do f(2), f(%pi), etc.
But, here is what happens.
(%i1) load(interpol);
(%o1) /usr/local/share/maxima/5.12.0/share/numeric/interpol.mac
(%i2) f(x):= linearinterpol([[2,1], [3,2], [4,3]]);
(%o2) f(x) := linearinterpol([[2, 1], [3, 2], [4, 3]])
(%i3) f(2);
(%o3) (x - 1) charfun2(x, minf, 3) + (x - 1) charfun2(x, 3, inf)
(%i4) f(4);
(%o4) (x - 1) charfun2(x, minf, 3) + (x - 1) charfun2(x, 3, inf)
So, one has to do an extra evaluation like
%i5) linearinterpol([[2,1], [3,2], [4,3]]);
(%o5) (x - 1) charfun2(x, minf, 3) + (x - 1) charfun2(x, 3, inf)
(%i6) f(x):= ''%;
(%o6) f(x) := (x - 1) charfun2(x, minf, 3) + (x - 1) charfun2(x, 3,
inf)
(%i7) f(2);
(%o7) 1
(%i8) f(3)
;
(%o8) 2
(%i9) f(2.4);
(%o9) 1.4
Why is this necessary?
TIA,
-sen
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 6/11/07, sen1 at math.msu.edu <sen1 at math.msu.edu> wrote:
>
>> (%o4) f(x) := (0.3 x - 0.02) charfun2(x, minf, 0.2)
>> + (1.9 x - .8999999999999999) charfun2(x, 0.9, inf)
>> + (1.7 x - .7199999999999995) charfun2(x, 0.8, 0.9)
>> + (1.5 x - .5600000000000003) charfun2(x, .7000000000000001, 0.8)
>> + (1.3 x - .4200000000000002) charfun2(x, .6000000000000001,
>> .7000000000000001) + (1.1 x - 0.3) charfun2(x, 0.5, .6000000000000001)
>> + (.8999999999999998 x - .1999999999999999) charfun2(x, 0.4, 0.5)
>> + (.7000000000000002 x - .1200000000000001) charfun2(x, 0.3, 0.4)
>> + (0.5 x - 0.06) charfun2(x, 0.2, 0.3)
>> (%i5) f(2);
>> (%o5) 2.9
>> (%i6) plot2d('(f(x)),[x,0,1]);
>>
>> Why does one need the apostrophe and the parentheses in the expression
>> in (%i6), and what does it mean?
>
> In Maxima 5.11 and earlier, a Boolean expression could only
> evaluate to true or false, otherwise it would trigger an error.
> e.g. when x is not yet assigned a value, if x > 0 then foo else bar
> triggered an error.
>
> The quote mark around f(x) is probably intended to prevent that error.
> It doesn't appear to be needed in Maxima 5.12.0.
>> From what I can tell, plot2d(f(x), ...) works OK.
> (So does plot2d(f, ...), which also works in some, maybe all,
> pre-5.12 versions.)
>
> I guess the documentation can be updated to cut out the quote mark.
>
> HTH
> Robert
>
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