[Techtalk] Linux graphing program

Dan Shearer dan at shearer.org
Fri Jul 9 15:05:58 EST 2004


On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 08:02:20PM -0500, 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.

Maybe 'plot', I don't know... gnuplot does pretty things, see
http://www.gnuplot.info/ ... I suspect the thing to do might be to
generate a data file using a language like www.octave.org but I really
have no idea at all. My problems arise when I can't work out what
equation I'm supposed to be using in the first place :-)

directory.google.com has a category called "graphing" which contains
some free software among many others.

Hth,

/Dan


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