On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Byungchul Cha <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I understand that > > f = sin(x) > > and > > f(x) = sin(x) > > define two different objects in Sage. When I introduce Sage to my > calc students, I want to get them to be able to use Sage with minimal > confusion and technicality and to accomplish the common tasks in > calculus, such as plotting, computing numerically and symbolically, > simplifying, differentiating and integrating. Which one do you think > is better? > I think f(x) = sin(x) is better for that purpose. 1. You can also do f(z) = sin(z) without having to first declare z. 2. Plotting will *know* that z is the variable. 3. It emphasizes that you wish to think of the expression on the right as a function of z. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
