[Techtalk] Linux graphing program

Mary mary-linuxchix at puzzling.org
Fri Jul 9 11:53:32 EST 2004


On Thu, Jul 08, 2004, ed orphan wrote:
> Does anyone know of a free program for Linux that graphs equations?
> Stuff like  y = 6x^3 - 5x It would save me a lot of time, especially
> for really messy equations.  I've done a search at
> http://freashmeat.org but either I used the wrong search words, or
> there just isn't any there.

Have a look at gnuplot. gnuplot is pretty heavy duty -- the type of
equations you give are at the low end of its capability.

See http://www.gnuplot.info/

And I don't know if it was just a typo, but you want to look on
http://freshmeat.net/ for free programs, rather than .org !

-Mary


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