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This graph is meant to help accompany the article Length of an arc and describe the method Fermat used. It has been released by Jacob Rideout to the public domain.
This is a rough, first draft of the graph. While I was adding lines to the graph the various colors all turned to red and I could not separate the colors again. Below is the code for gnuplot, please help me fix it.
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################################################################### ## Written by Jacob Rideout <wikipedia@jacobrideout.net> ## ## 2005 - Released to the public domain ## ################################################################### ## Define Display Settings set terminal postscript enhanced color solid lw 2 "Times-Roman" 20 set samples 1001 set output "fermat.ps" set size square set noborder set nokey set noxtics set noytics set xzeroaxis set yzeroaxis set parametric set multiplot #set pointsize 1 ################################################################### ## Define variables and functions a=.6 e=0.45*a f(x)=x**1.5 tangent(x)=1.5*(a**0.5)*(x-a)+f(a) ################################################################### ## Calculate plot range set yrange [-0.1:f(a)*2.5] set xrange [-0.1:a*2] # label offset lo=e/10 ################################################################### ## Set functions to plot # primary functions # tangent line set label "y=^3/_2(a^1^/^2)*(x-a)+f(a)" at a/2, f(a)/4 plot t, tangent(t) # y=x^(3/2) set label "y=x^3^/^2" at a/4, f(a)/2 plot t, f(t) # secondary (helper) lines # vertical line at x=a set label "(0,a)" at a+lo, 0+lo plot a, t # vertical line at x=a+e set label "(0,a+e)" at a+e+lo, 0+lo plot e+a, t # horzonal line at y = f(a) plot t, f(a) # intersections points # (a,f(a)) set label "A" at a+lo, f(a)+lo plot a, f(a) with lp pt 5 # (a+e,f(a)) set label "B" at a+e+lo, f(a)+lo plot a+e, f(a) with lp pt 5 # (a+e,tangent(a+e)) set label "C" at a+e+lo, tangent(a+e)-lo plot a+e, tangent(a+e) with lp pt 5 # (a+e,f(a+e)) set label "D" at a+e+lo, f(a+e)+lo plot a+e, f(a+e) with lp pt 5
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00:47, 2 February 2006 | en:User:Cmdrjameson | |
04:07, 27 January 2006 | en:User:Stan Shebs | (tag) |
18:02, 22 July 2005 | en:User:Jrideout | |
18:01, 22 July 2005 | en:User:Jrideout | (added code) |
18:00, 22 July 2005 | en:User:Jrideout | (This graph is meant to help accompany the article <a href="/wiki/Length_of_an_arc" title="Length of an arc">Length of an arc</a> and describe the method Fermat used.) |
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