You're right, I thought the buildq was needed to prevent evaluation but in this case it has no effect. So it works either way but on the other hand I have some very long power series that I want to plot so I am not sure what will happen when I try that.
Rich
------------Original Message------------
From: "Andrej Vodopivec" <andrej.vodopivec at gmail.com>
To: "Richard Hennessy" <rvh2007 at comcast.net>
Date: Sat, May-3-2008 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Maxima] buildq command method
2008/5/3 Richard Hennessy <rvh2007 at comcast.net>:
> I got it to work using makelist and apply using the following.
>
> apply('draw2d, makelist(buildq([i:g],implicit(x^i-y,x,0,1,y,0,1)),g,1,20));
But doesn't
apply('draw2d, makelist(implicit(x^i-y,x,0,1,y,0,1),i,1,20));
work just as well?
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Andrej