# set terminal svg size 600,400 dynamic enhanced font 'arial,10' mousing name "approximate_1" butt dashlength 1.0 # set output 'approximate.1.svg' set style fill solid 0.40 noborder set format y "%.1f" set key fixed center top vertical Left reverse enhanced autotitle nobox set samples 500, 500 set style data lines set xtics norangelimit set xtics ("-π" -3.14159, "-π/2" -1.57080, 0.00000, "π/2" 1.57080, "π" 3.14159) set title "Polynomial approximation of sin(x)" set xrange [ -3.20000 : 3.20000 ] noreverse approx_1(x) = x - x**3/6 approx_2(x) = x - x**3/6 + x**5/120 approx_3(x) = x - x**3/6 + x**5/120 - x**7/5040 NO_ANIMATION = 1 label1 = "x - {x^3}/3!" label2 = "x - {x^3}/3! + {x^5}/5!" label3 = "x - {x^3}/3! + {x^5}/5! - {x^7}/7!" save_encoding = "utf8" ## Last datafile plotted: "+" plot '+' using 1:(sin($1)):(approx_1($1)) with filledcurve title label1 lt 3, '+' using 1:(sin($1)):(approx_2($1)) with filledcurve title label2 lt 2, '+' using 1:(sin($1)):(approx_3($1)) with filledcurve title label3 lt 1, sin(x) with lines lw 1 lc rgb "black"