I don't think composition of piecewise functions has been implemented yet.

2008/6/11 houp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hello.
>
> I'd like to have some simple piecewise defined function like:
> f = Piecewise([[[0,1],1]])
> and the composite it with some other function like
> h = x - 1
>
> I've tried somethine like this:
>
> f1 = lambda x:1
> f2 = lambda x:x+2
> f = piecewise([[[0,1],f1]])
> f(f2)
>
> and it fails with:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>  File "/Users/houp/.sage/sage_notebook/worksheets/admin/1/code/5.py",
> line 7, in <module>
>    f(f2)
>  File "/Applications/sage/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sympy/
> plotting/", line 1, in <module>
>
>  File "/Applications/sage/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sage/
> functions/piecewise.py", line 584, in __call__
>    raise ValueError,"Value not defined outside of domain."
> ValueError: Value not defined outside of domain.
>
> The problem is that when sage tries to composite those functions it
> does not change the domain of f. On one hand it would be usefull to
> have it calculate f2([0,1]) and use it as new domain, on the other
> hand if f2 would be more complex it could be hard to calculate the
> image f2([0,1]). But anyway I'm wondering if it's possible to make any
> use of piecewise functions compositing?
>
> Best regards,
> Witold Bołt.
>
> >
>

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