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%%  The LaTeX Graphics Companion, 2ed (first printing May 2007)
%% 
%%  Example 3-6-2 on page 123.
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%%  Copyright (C) 2007 Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Denis Roegel, Sebastian Rahtz, Herbert Vo\ss 
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%%  It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%%  of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%%  of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%%  See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{183.83385pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{mfpic}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\opengraphsfile{tmp0}
\begin{mfpic}[15]{-3}{3}{-3}{3}
\axes
\function{-2,2,0.1}{((x**3)-x)/2}
\end{mfpic}
\closegraphsfile
\end{document}