pagan

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What I find interesting is the question of whether simplify() and Algebraic:-Normal() fail to find the simplest compact form of the expression due to some similar underlying cause.

What I find interesting is the question of whether simplify() and Algebraic:-Normal() fail to find the simplest compact form of the expression due to some similar underlying cause.

See also here, which is simpler as a workaround.

Use of syntax like plot(f(x),x=...) often means that the user is not aware of precisely what's going on in the function call. The fact that f(x) as an argument to plot gets evaluated up front, so that plot() actually deals with a returned expression and not the function or operator, can be obscured. So I would advocate not preserving it in a reply, when other forms like,

plot( f, ... )

or even,

plot( 'f'(x), x=... )

may be reasonable for the example at hand.

See also here, which is simpler as a workaround.

Use of syntax like plot(f(x),x=...) often means that the user is not aware of precisely what's going on in the function call. The fact that f(x) as an argument to plot gets evaluated up front, so that plot() actually deals with a returned expression and not the function or operator, can be obscured. So I would advocate not preserving it in a reply, when other forms like,

plot( f, ... )

or even,

plot( 'f'(x), x=... )

may be reasonable for the example at hand.

In Maple 9.5.1,

q2:= (x)-> evalf[50](x*exp(x^2)*(1-erf(x))):
plot(q2, 0 .. 10);

In Maple 9.5.1,

q2:= (x)-> evalf[50](x*exp(x^2)*(1-erf(x))):
plot(q2, 0 .. 10);

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