# Question: Why sin(x)/x is not considered as a function?

January 28 2013 by
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Maple 15

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Hello,

I'm going to ask an question which I think it has an easy answer. However, I can't figure it out.

I wonder why f:x->sin(x)/x is not considered as a function. When I type "type(f(x),'function')", Maple says it's false, even though I don't know why. I'm asking this because I'm making a procedure in which one of the parametres is a function and when I type

aprox:=proc(fn::function,x::realcons,iteracions::integer)

the procedure doesn't work. Here you have the procedure I have made, so you can make an idea of what I'm doing:

aprox:=proc(fn::function,x::realcons,iteracions::integer)local i,resp;for i from 1 to iteracions doresp:=[x+(1/i),fn(x+(1/i))];[resp];end do;end proc;
It's just a function which depends on three parametres aprox(fn,x,iteracions), in which fn can be any function, x any number and iteracions an integer. The aim of this procedure is to print/show a list of all the values with the form [x+(1/i),fn(x+(1/i)] for i=1..iteracions.

Thank you very much for your appreciated attention :)

Have a nice day!