Instructions for Use - Grapher (04/16th/2014) : Introduction!

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! If you want to know everything about this outstanding plotter of mathematical 2D and 3D graphs with a "Help" that does not disclose a tenth of its capabilities, then do not hesitate to download this manual !! If you want to know if the bug number 6 (out of 33) exists in Curvus Pro X 1.3.2 and/or Grapher 1.1 and/or 2.0 and/or 2.1 and/or 2.2 and/or 2.3 and/or 2.5, or if a suitable workaround exists, then dive into the last chapter of this guide !! If the syntax of mathematical expressions used in these five applications gives you trouble, or if you do not understand why 3-2=1 but 3 -2=-6, then browse the chapter Expressions.! Six very detailed and extensively illustrated lessons will gradually initiate you into Grapher, saving you many futile queries to a “Help“ section deficient in examples or illustrations and which quickly becomes less than helpful.!

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Changes to Instructions for Use - Grapher since the French edition 11/5th/2009 :! ! — page 1 : December 1st 2011 Edition ;! ! — validity checked for the new version 2.2 of Grapher in OS X 10.7.2 Lion ;! ! — in this manual entry of "supplements" so far placed in a separate document (pages 51, 60, 61) ;! ! — updating the list of bugs (pages 63 to 67) : new bugs nr. 26 to 31, four of them appeared with Grapher 2.2 and furthermore which inherits the 15 bugs of version 2.1 ;! ! — added and modified Appendices (pages 69 to 78) ;! ! — bugs mentioned in the text at appropriate locations ;! ! — many small corrections.!

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Changes to Instructions for Use - Grapher since the English edition 12/1st/2011 :! ! — page 1 : June 15th 2012 Edition ;! ! — validity checked for the new version 2.3 of Grapher in OS X 10.7.4 Lion ;! ! — added reference to Grapher 2.3 where necessary ;! ! — changed page 47, matrices and determinants (left column) ;! ! — updating the list of bugs (pages 63 to 67) : new bugs nr. 26 to 33, six of them appeared with Grapher 2.2 and furthermore which inherits the 15 bugs of version 2.1, all of it are also in version 2.3 ;! ! — changed page 73, Appendix 4,line 7 “In the matrices…“ ;! ! — added pages 79 to 83 “Appendix 9 - Matrices in Grapher : new and very significant computing capability.!

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Changes to Instructions for Use - Grapher since the English edition 06/15th/2012 :! ! — validity checked for version 2.3 of Grapher in OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 ;! ! — page 1 read : December 15th 2012 edition ;! ! — page 52 last lines, read : “… Pro 15“, Mac OS X 10.7 Grapher 2.2, then 10.7.4 and 10.8.2 Grapher 2.3, …“! ! — page 54 in the table : read “ -π/2 et +π/2 for asin(x) atan(x) Arcsin(x) Arctan(x)“.! ! — page 63 1st paragraph : read in the end “then 2.3 in OS X 10.7.4 and in Mountain Lion 10.8.“! ! — page 65 Bug nr. 16 : read “… Create Animation : the Parameter, Zoom and Frame Limits animations from the pop-up window “Animation“ do not work.“! ! — page 67 Bug nr.31 1st and 2nd lines : read : “… enter value > after clicking the Stroke button or closing the Evaluation pop-up window, the osculating circle disappears from the graph. …“ ! ! — page 67 Bug nr. 32 and Bug nr. 33 : add a line “Bug resolved with Grapher 2.3 in OS X 10.8.“! ! — page 67 last line : read “…rapid removal by Apple of the 18 bugs remaining in Grapher 2.3 !“! ! — page 69 Appendix 1 line 8 : read «— the decimal comma is required by OS X 10.6 to 10.8 set in French ;»!

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Changes to Instructions for Use - Grapher since the English edition 12/15th/2012 :! ! — page 1 : December 15th 2013 Edition.! ! — validity checked for the new version 2.5 of Grapher in OS X Mavericks 10.9.! ! — all screen copies (212) of the manuals are remade in Grapher 2.5 set in French and in English! ! — page 60 : noted a Grapher 2.5 modification : it is no longer possible to drag onto the 2D graph various pictures (PDF, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, EPS, etc.).! ! — It is still possible to drag a selected expression in a MathType window into the graph of Grapher.! ! — pages 19, 27 and 30 : noted a Grapher modification : the animation commands open a pop-up window to name and save animations as QuickTime files and the transitory sequence opening in Grapher has been removed.! ! — page 75 : noted the Grapher modification due to bug nr. 29 “Do not use a coordinate name for an integration variable ; modify if necessary integrals created by Grapher.“! ! — noted everywhere it was useful the new version 2.5 of Grapher.! ! — pages 63 to 67 : checked the Grapher bug list, no change since Grapher 2.3. Bugs nr. 16 and 30 text is improved.! ! — page 76 : paragraph added “Indeterminate forms in Grapher“ : 00 = ∞0 = 1∞ = 1!

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Changes to Instructions for Use - Grapher since the English edition 12/15th/2013 :! ! — page 1 : April 16th 2014 Edition.! ! — page 25, lines 1 to 6 : improved text layout.! ! — page 43 : fixed typo in « implicit » (twice).! ! — page 45, Periodic functions, columns 1 and 3 : “x“ replaced by “t“ in the definitions of functions (see bug nr. 28).! ! — pages 43 to 48 et 53, 54 : improved appearance of tables.! ! — page 54, Physical constants, Speed of light in vacuum, end of line : read “or“ instead of “ou“.! ! — page 67, bottom : added new Bug nr. 34 (Grapher 2.5), “Create Movie“ does not work in 3D. This is the only news of this edition.! The original text was transcribed in Pages 5.2 then exported to PDF. A new bug appeared : texts with subscript or superscript characters in table cells disappear when exporting to PDF. Tables of this edition are JPEG pictures inserted in Pages 5.2 text (cancelled).! ! — October 26th 2014 minor change page 63 line 8 : added “and Yosemite OS X 10.10 (10/2014)“. Removed subscript and superscript characters in table cells pages 43 to 47 and 51 to 54 to allow exporting tables from Pages 5.2.2 to PDF without using JPEG pictures. !

! Many thanks to Richard Klein from USA-California for correcting the English translation of the manual. ! !

The Examples of Grapher.! The examples provided in Grapher are in most cases incompatible with the software supposed to build them : transfer of their equations into a new window of Grapher 2.1 to 2.5 leads to failure.!    To avoid these disappointments, all the examples have been reconstructed and rectified if necessary in Grapher 2.5 new windows ; this new folder "Examples" (12/15th/2013) completed with the forgotten old examples of Curvus Pro X, can effectively replace the original folder of Grapher versions 2.1 to 2.5.! No new bug appeared during this audit.!

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All comments, remarks, criticisms, error reports, requests for clarification will be welcome, they will allow me to improve this manual for Grapher and better adapt it to users.!

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Yves Barois < [email protected] >

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