Re: [Gnuplot-info] Weird Gnuplot problem

[Ethan A M. <EAM...@gm...>]

On Saturday, 30 July 2016 01:50:40 PM Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Gnuplot 5.0.4, on MacOS 10.11.6.
> 
> For reasons that are not particularly germane, I am trying to determine 
> the area of a square vs. a circle, given a piece of string of length "x".  
> I have worked it out in simple maths, but I want to plot it.
> 
> gnuplot> set xtics 0,1,100
> gnuplot> plot (x*x)/16, pi * x
> 
> But no matter what I do, I get a partial graph, no xtics on the left, 
> extending to 10 on the right, with the expected parabola and angled line 
> intersecting at x=0.
> 
> What I really want to see is the parabola crossing the straight line, 
> around pi * 16. so where have I stuffed up?

The default range on x is [-10:10], which is what you have.
You asked for xtics starting at 0 and going to 100, which you also have.
IOW you got just what you asked for.

Maybe you intended "set xrange" rather than "set xtics"?