[sage-support] Re: How to return a tangent line.

2009-05-24 Thread Jose Guzman
> > sage: def secant(xpoint): > : df = f.differentiate(x) > : m = df(xpoint) > : a = f(xpoint) - m*(xpoint) > : g(x) = a + m*x > : return g > > The trick is to define the function, and the, make the return of the > "abstract" function. > > Yeah! That wa

[sage-support] Re: How to return a tangent line.

2009-05-23 Thread Laurent
Jose Guzman ha scritto: > Hi everybody, > > I am pretty new to symbolic math and Sage but I love it. > > I am trying create a function which returns an tangent line at a given > point (xpoint) in a function f(x) already known as follows: > > var('x') > f(x): x**2 > > def tangent(xpoint): > >