Thanks for the scatter plot pointers.  For question 2, imagine
something like:
f(x) = 5 * SUM(1<i<10, x^i)
Probably not standard sum notation, but I hope it's clear.  Now I want
to use SAGE to compute f'(x).

On May 6, 9:04 pm, Marshall Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not completely sure what you mean for your question 2 - can you
> give an example?
>
> For your first question, if you have a tuple of 2D data called 'data',
> then in the notebook you can do
>
> show(point(data))
>
> and you get a scatterplot.  In the reference manual under 2D-plotting
> there is more information on graphics primitives, such as adding
> colors (http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/doc/html/ref/module-
> sage.plot.plot.html).
>
> There is also a list_plot command, so you can do
>
> show(list_plot(data))
>
> to a list of data points; this has a 'plotjoined' option.
>
> Hopefully that helps.  I am not a SAGE guru, so there may be other
> nice options as well.
>
> -M.Hampton
>
> On May 6, 2:49 pm, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > 1. How do you do scatter plots in SAGE, without using an interface to
> > underlying commercial software like MATLAB?
>
> > 2. Can maxima or another tool compute [partial] derivatives or
> > integrals containing arithmetic sums or products?


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