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Question: Weird behaviour of the plot function

Question:Weird behaviour of the plot function

owren44 15 Maple
plot
November 17 2024
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I needed to plot a function, using  plot in Maple.

plot(sin(x)*sqrt(1 - (sin(x)/x)^2), x = 0 .. Pi/4)

The graph shown by Maple seems to be identically 0 from x=0 up to some x*. At this point it jumps and for x>x* it looks fine. Of course the function has a singularity at x=0, but even changing the left end of plotting range to something small but positive does not alleviate the problem. Another strange thing is that x* seems to depend on the (end point of) the plotting range.
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