El mi?, 11-03-2009 a las 15:36 -0400, Kostas Oikonomou escribi?:
> I have a function
>
> r4(s) := s!/(((s/4)!)^4 * 4^s)
>
> and I am trying to plot it over the range [200,300]:
>
> plot2d(r4(s), [s,200,300])
>
> plot2d returns silently, i.e. it produces nothing. I am
> fairly sure the problem is that the computation involves
> intermediate numbers that are too large, although the final
> result is well within the rang of an ordinary float. E.g.
> r4(300) is of the order of 10^-4.
Hello,
Due to overflows, no data file is generated for gnuplot.
(%i21) float(r4(223));
Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
floating point overflow
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Mario