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"Peter \"lastfuture\" Marquardt" <lastfuture@lastfuture.de> pondered a 
moment and came up with:
> >.-------------------------------------------.
> >|       sqrt((SNOW^4+SNOW)-SNOW^3)*2        |
> >|                                           |
<snip>
> 
> just tried to graph f(x) where x=snow ..can anybody tell me why the
> thing looks more or less like a parable except near the turn where it
> seems to break up (at least my ti calc draws it like that)

The square root makes it do fun things...

sqrt((x^4-x)-x^3)*2 = 0         or:

       __________________
      |
2 *   | /  4      \    3    =  0
    \/  \ X  -  X / - X 



solve for x:  x = 0
              x = -.75487766624669

Between those two values y is undefined.

Now graph y = x^4 and see what it looks like.


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