Rational functions

[math]\displaystyle{ 3x+x }[/math] Rational function [math]\displaystyle{ \frac{f}{g} }[/math]: Polynomial f:

Polynomial g:

Rational function

$\backslash frac\{f\}\{g\}$

:

References

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_function

The underlying JavaScript source code

        board = JXG.JSXGraph.initBoard('box1', {originX: 300, originY: 100, unitX: 30, unitY: 25});
        // Axes
        b1axisx = board.createElement('axis', [[0,0], [1,0]], {});
        b1axisy = board.createElement('axis', [[0,0], [0,1]], {});

        var p = [];
        var q = [];
        p[0] = board.createElement('point', [-1,2], {style:6});
        p[1] = board.createElement('point', [3,-1], {style:6});
        var polynomial = function(x) {
                var i;
                var y = 0.0;
                var xc = [];
                for (i=0;i<p.length;i++) {
                  xc[i] = p[i].X();
                }
                for (i=0;i<p.length;i++) {
                  var t = p[i].Y();
                  for (var k=0;k<p.length;k++) {
                    if (k!=i) {
                      t *= (x-xc[k])/(xc[i]-xc[k]);
                    }
                  }
                  y += t;
                }
                return y;
            };
        graph = board.createElement('curve', ['x', polynomial, 'x', -10, 10], {curveType:'graph'});

        function addPoint1() {
          p.push(board.createElement('point',[(Math.random()-0.5)*10,(Math.random()-0.5)*3],{style:6}));
          board.update();
        }

        board2 = JXG.JSXGraph.initBoard('box2', {originX: 300, originY: 100, unitX: 30, unitY: 25});
        // Axes
        b1axisx2 = board2.createElement('axis', [[0,0], [1,0]], {});
        b1axisy2 = board2.createElement('axis', [[0,0], [0,1]], {});

        q[0] = board2.createElement('point', [-1,2], {style:6});
        q[1] = board2.createElement('point', [3,-1], {style:6});
        var polynomial2 = function(x) {
                var i;
                var y = 0.0;
                var xc = [];
                for (i=0;i<q.length;i++) {
                  xc[i] = q[i].X();
                }
                for (i=0;i<q.length;i++) {
                  var t = q[i].Y();
                  for (var k=0;k<q.length;k++) {
                    if (k!=i) {
                      t *= (x-xc[k])/(xc[i]-xc[k]);
                    }
                  }
                  y += t;
                }
                return y;
            };
        graph2 = board2.createElement('curve', ['x', polynomial2, 'x', -10, 10], {curveType:'graph'});

        function addPoint2() {
          q.push(board2.createElement('point',[(Math.random()-0.5)*10,(Math.random()-0.5)*3],{style:6}));
          board2.update();
        }

        board3 = JXG.JSXGraph.initBoard('box3', {originX: 300, originY: 200, unitX: 30, unitY: 25});
        // Axes
        b1axisx3 = board3.createElement('axis', [[0,0], [1,0]], {});
        b1axisy3 = board3.createElement('axis', [[0,0], [0,1]], {});
        graph3 = board3.createElement('curve', ['x', function(x){return polynomial(x)/polynomial2(x);}, 'x', -10, 10], {curveType:'graph',strokeColor:'#ff0000'});