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Gilbert Strang, Calculus, 3rd edition (Wellesley-Cambridge Press; MIT OpenCourseWare RES.18-001) §3.4 Graphs, #45 · Calculus · Curve sketching

What are the scaling factors … and … for the two zooms…

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What are the scaling factors and for the two zooms in Figure 3.12? They give the stretching of the and axes.

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Gilbert Strang, Calculus, 3rd edition (Wellesley-Cambridge Press; MIT OpenCourseWare RES.18-001) · §3.4 Graphs, #45

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