On Jan 23, 2007, at 10:41 AM, Spencer Graves wrote: > Consider the following: > > plot(0, 0, xlim=c(-10, 10), ylim=c(-50, 50)) > lines(c(0,0), (2*c(-pi, pi))^2) > You are creating a line from point (0,(2*(-pi))^2) to point (0,(2*pi) ^2), however, since (-pi)^2=pi^2, it's not much of a line.