Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: ruben safir Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: Re: Circle and Eclipses Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:26:10 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: www.mrbrklyn.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1509337570 19796 96.57.23.82 (30 Oct 2017 04:26:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 04:26:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:3808 On 10/24/2017 07:46 PM, F. Russell wrote: > I'll give you only a hint because it will serve you a lot better > in the long run. > > Do a search for "implicit function." > > Here are just two of the many results: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit_function > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit_curve > > Happy learning! in this case, f (x, y) = x2 + y2 and g(x, y) is the constant function 1. what is a constant function in this case where there are two independent variables (x,y)