Subject: plot2d failed to plot too many discrete points
From: Richard Fateman
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 07:33:34 -0700
On 5/13/2012 7:38 PM, XeCycle wrote:
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>> The fact that something is not in a system (or is not documented...) or
>> "doesn't seem to work" is occasionally a useful hint that maybe it is
>> not a sensible thing to do.
> So numerical analysis is not important in a computer algebra
> system, right?
A careful numerical analyst would generally aim to do a modest amount of
sensible computation.
Are you thinking that you are doing numerical analysis and that Maxima
is not supportive of it? I am not sure that copying huge amounts of data
and waiting for programs to format floating point numbers is numerical
analysis :)
Careful numerical analysis has recently become less important, especially
with fast computers and with computer algebra systems you can almost always
increase the precision. Still, some numerical analysis knowledge is
useful. :)
RJF
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