Subject: plotting problem with trigonometric functions
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:50:47 -0700
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:38 AM, joaquin borges <ultradenso at gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello :
> I have a problem with the command "plot2d(sec(x)*cos(x),[x,-1,1]**);"
> It does not complete an takes almost all cpu power.
> I'm on ubuntu 10.10 64 bits with an amd athlon processor and 2 GiB of
> memory.
>
> Hmm. I see a similar thing, but it's not maxima. Maxima returns almost
instantly, but gnuplot is sucking up 100% cpu plotting a (mostly)
constant. Not sure why that is because plot2d(1,[x,-1,1]) brings up a plot
instantly.
So it's not a maxima problem per se.
Ray