"""Original Q9 graph; write the PNG basename to the cwd. Tested with Python 3.14.4, NumPy 2.3.5 and Matplotlib 3.10.7. """ from pathlib import Path import matplotlib matplotlib.use("Agg") import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np def main(): fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(9, 3.9), width_ratios=[1.7, 1], layout="constrained") fig.patch.set_facecolor("white") for ax in axes: ax.set_facecolor("white") ax.axhline(0, color="#888888", linewidth=0.7) ax.axvline(0, color="#888888", linewidth=0.7) ax.grid(alpha=0.18) ax.set(xlabel="$x$", ylabel="$y$") ax.spines[["top", "right"]].set_visible(False) for left, right in [(-5, -1.015), (-0.985, 4)]: x = np.linspace(left, right, 1200) axes[0].plot(x, x**3/(x**3+1), color="#17638d", linewidth=2.3) axes[0].axvline(-1, color="#b24c30", linestyle="--", linewidth=1.3, label="$x=-1$") axes[0].axhline(1, color="#80713b", linestyle="--", linewidth=1.3, label="$y=1$") axes[0].set(xlim=(-5, 4), ylim=(-4.5, 5), title=r"$y=x^3/(x^3+1)$") axes[0].legend(loc="lower right", fontsize=9) x = np.linspace(-0.55, 0.55, 500) axes[1].plot(x, x**3/(x**3+1), color="#17638d", linewidth=2.3) axes[1].set(xlim=(-0.55, 0.55), ylim=(-0.22, 0.2), title="Stationary inflection") for ax in axes: ax.scatter(0, 0, color="#b24c30", s=30, zorder=4) axes[1].annotate("(0, 0)", (0, 0), xytext=(12, -23), textcoords="offset points") fig.savefig(Path("paper-1-rational-graph.png"), dpi=160, facecolor="white") plt.close(fig) if __name__ == "__main__": main()