functions

Built-in or user-defined functions can be displayed by the plot and splot commands in addition to, or instead of, data read from a file. The requested function is evaluated by sampling at regular intervals spanning the independent axis range[s]. See set samples and set isosamples. Example:

      approx(ang) = ang - ang**3 / (3*2)
      plot sin(x) title "sin(x)", approx(x) title "approximation"

To set a default plot style for functions, see set style function. For information on built-in functions, see expressions functions. For information on defining your own functions, see user-defined.