This ask.sagemath question <https://ask.sagemath.org/question/46819/numerical-integration-and-plot-failing/> seems to raise a genuine bug. Perusing Trac doesn't raise muc relevant, possibly except for Trac#24428 <https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/24428> and Trac#21754 <https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/21754>.
>From my comment to the ask.sagemath question : Indeed : sage: var("y,z") (y, z) sage: cauchy(z)=solve(z*y^3 +y^2 - 2*z*y+2 ,y)[0].rhs() sage: def foo(u):return(arg(cauchy(u)).n()) sage: [foo(t) for t in (1,1.1..2)] [0.828222717321238, ## Snip... 0.377665318352514] Therefore, this function *can* be evaluated. But : sage: plot(foo,(1,2)) verbose 0 (3635: plot.py, generate_plot_points) WARNING: When plotting, failed to evaluate function at 200 points. verbose 0 (3635: plot.py, generate_plot_points) Last error message: 'negative number cannot be raised to a fractional power' Launched png viewer for Graphics object consisting of 0 graphics primitives ... not in `plot`. Trying to plot symbolically yelds : TypeError: Cannot evaluate symbolic expression to a numeric value. A bug, IMHO. Can someone confirm this and, possibly, give me hints as how to flag this ticket efficiently ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/7490f1f7-2b5a-44e1-bd4e-6e646ee26817%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.