Plotting error message regarding numerical type of function arguments
I am trying to plot the following function:
x = var('x')
def y(x): return RR(len(prime_range(floor(0.95 * x), floor(1.25 * x))) / round(1.25 * x - 0.95 * x))
I am not sure whether it is well-constructed mathematically, but it's trying to check the density of prime numbers around a given value x
I am using the floor()
function because I'm not sure that prime_range()
accepts non-integers.
If I test the function with random real values of x
I get a plausible output without errors.
However, when I try to plot the function as in:
plot(y(x), (x, 5, 20))
I get the following error message:
TypeError: unable to convert floor(0.950000000000000*x) to an integer
and argument is also not real: unable to simplify to float approximation
I don't understand why this input cannot be understood as real by sagemath, or why the floor is not an integer.
To find out if
prime_range
accepts non-integers, you could just try it and see what happens. Tryprime_range(30.438)
.Thank you! @John Palmieri