Re: how to plot function in a certain range?

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Dr. Hartmut Ehmler wrote:
> I have a single plot with x ranging from [0:100] and data points in that
> interval. Then I want to add a function f(x) , which describes the data
> only in a limited interval, e.g. [0:50]. How do I add the function with
> that range to the plot? If I try "plot [0:50] f(x), data" gnuplot will
> always change the x range of the whole plot and I cannot see the data from
> [50:100].

Parametric mode is the generic answer to this kind of problem:

	set parametric
	set trange [0:50]
	plot 'data', t, f(t) title "f(x)"