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Article #12Re: Are there any discussions going on?
From: Gary Tupper
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 00:00
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Colleagues:
Members of this group ought to be aware of 'GrafEq' -the premier 2d
pre-calculus relation-plotting program. For Mac, Win3.1 & PowerMac
Features:
- accepts relations in virtually any format
- displays relations in standard math format (sub/superscripts etc)
radicals proper nesting with
- state of the art graphing engine:
relations: = < > <= >= and their negations
operations: + - * ^ and +-
subtractive successive refinement to achieve validity
standard operators: 18trig 18hypertrig log any base floor
ceiling modulo gcd lcm min max factorial ||
round trunc signum
- 1 dim friendly (ie plots the ilk of x=|x|)
- singularities: x^2+y^2=x^3+y^3 : includes the dot
- discontinuity savvy: y=(x^2-1)/(x+1) reveals a disc @ -1
- relations defined by constraints:
eg y= x^2
x>-5
y<10 will plot the pabolic section
- conditionals: eg:
-x if x<1
y= { x^2 if 1<=x<=pi }
arcsecx if x>pi
-3D mimicry via contour plots: x^2+y^2+z^2 = 10^2
z={0,1,3,5,7} will plot 1 dot & 7 circles
- continuous range definition: y=(1,3)+(-1,2) will plot the region of
lines with slopes between 1&3 and y-intercepts between -1&2
- regions (from inequalities) can be either layered or blended
-good user stuff: zooming in/out; copy & paste both relations & graphs to
clipboard; printout to printer resolution; save to file via 3 formats
control font size; add text/relations/segments to print-outs
interpretation aids: 1-pt location cursor; 2pt distance/angle
finder
In conclusion:
You want to solve x^sinx=log cosx - simply enter it and check out the
x
x-intercepts
You can confirm the above & see for yourself at: http://www.cafe.net/peda/
Gary Tupper
Pedagoguery Software "In pursuit of Validity"
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