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6.1.1 Using the plot command and some of its variants

The standard plotting function is plot. Calling plot(x,y) creates a figure window with a plot of  as a function of . The input arguments are arrays (or lists) of equal length. It is also possible to use plot(y), in which case the values in  will be plotted against their index, that is, plot(y) is a short form of plot(range(len(y)),y).

Here is an example that shows how to plot  using 200 sample points and with markers at every fourth point:

# plot sin(x) for some interval
x = linspace(-2*pi,2*pi,200)
plot(x,sin(x))

# plot marker for every 4th point
samples = x[::4]
plot(samples,sin(samples),'r*')

# add title and grid lines
title('Function sin(x) and some points plotted')
grid()

The result is shown in the following figure (Figure 6.1):

Figure 6.1: A plot of the function sin(x) with grid lines shown

As you can see, the standard plot is a solid blue...

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Claus Führer is a professor of scientific computations at Lund University, Sweden. He has an extensive teaching record that includes intensive programming courses in numerical analysis and engineering mathematics across various levels in many different countries and teaching environments. Claus also develops numerical software in research collaboration with industry and received Lund University's Faculty of Engineering Best Teacher Award in 2016.
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