Re: newbie question

["Justin C. Walker" <justin@mac.com>]

On Mar 7, 2007, at 07:05 , Lonnie Cumberland wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I am new to Pari after using Landon Calc for a while, but had some
> problems with it and thought that I would try a more advanced package
> like Pari.
>
> I just installed Pari on a Windows machine and tried a simple plot
> command.
>
> plot(x=-2,2,sin(x^7))
>
> it seems to have plotted the result in the text command space instead
> of a graphical window.

'gp' has a pretty good documentation feature:

> ?foo
  gets you a brief description of "foo"; and
> ??foo
  gets you a more detailed description of "foo".

"foo" can be anything that 'gp' recognizes.  Finally,

> ???foo
will cause a search of the documentation for "foo" and print out the  
names of the entries where "foo" is found.  Try

> ???plot

Justin

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