| Ilya Zakharevich on Mon, 20 Apr 1998 06:01:15 +0200 |
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| Recursive plotting |
Of course, after I finished debugging a Math::Pari Perl script which
was
auto-refining set of points so that
they (the points) give a good graph of the given function
if used with cubic splines,
I discovered this RECURSIVE flag for ploth(). ;-)
Couple of notes:
a) Documentation says that PARI uses min 15 points for
graphing, but analysis of the code says that it is 29 points.
Since 15 looks like a right value, one need to change
RECUR_NUMPOINTS to 8, so that PARI uses 15 points min.
b) I think it is not yet late to change the meaning of flag 2
on the opposite : if it is set, PARI will not use heuristics
to speed up plotting.
One should value backward-compatibility, but with plotting
precision does not come first. I still need more than 5
mins to plot zeta on the interval of length 3 near
0.5+3000i, and with such speed the time becomes a primary
factor.
Ilya