[Maxima] plotting problem with trigonometric functions

[Raymond Toy]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:38 AM, joaquin borges <ultradenso at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello :
> I have a problem with the command "plot2d(sec(x)*cos(x),[x,-1,1]**);"
> It does not complete an takes almost all cpu power.
> I'm on ubuntu 10.10 64 bits with an amd athlon  processor and 2 GiB of
> memory.
>
> Hmm.  I see a similar thing, but it's not maxima.  Maxima returns almost
instantly, but gnuplot is sucking up 100% cpu plotting a (mostly)
constant.  Not sure why that is because plot2d(1,[x,-1,1]) brings up a plot
instantly.

So it's not a maxima problem per se.

Ray
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