On Thursday, February 28, 2013 5:21:06 PM UTC-5, Dan Drake wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 at 11:56AM -0800, David Smith wrote: > > I've been experimenting (in an interact) with graphing x^m/e^x for large > > values of m, in order to demonstrate that exp grows faster than any > power > > function. This works fine up to m=15, but at 16 (and any higher value) > I > > get a long list of errors ending with > > > > ParseFatalException: Expected end of math '$' > > $\verb|1e+12|$ (at char 0), (line:1, col:1) > > > > Wolfram Alpha is perfectly happy to graph this function up to m=125, and > after that, it fails only in lopping off the top of the graph because the > y-coordinates are too big. > > Is there some reason why Sage can't handle this? > > For me, Sage works fine up to x^115. There it starts to complain that it > can't evaluate the function (x^115/e^x) at all points. That seems very > strange to me, although maybe it's running up against the > maximum size that floats can do -- but the plot looks fine, so maybe > not? >
I would think this is a matplotlib issue that we are encountering - after all, the error is about 1e+12, or a trillion, so maybe there is something about how we are passing the tick marks on. David, can you give the *exact* command? - kcrisman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
