Exchanging the axes in gnuplot

Question

I have been wondering about this for a while, and it might already be implemented in gnuplot but I haven\'t been able to find info online.

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Answer 1

As far as I know there is no way to simply invert or exchange the axes in gnuplot when plotting a function.

The reason comes from the way functions are plotted in the normal plotting mode. There is a set of points at even intervals along the x axis which are sampled (frequency set by set samples) and the function value computed. This only allows for well-behaved functions; one y-value per x-value.