[OS X TeX] Drawing parametric curves for Beamer

[Michael Sharpe]

> On Oct 17, 2016, at 2:01 PM, Tim Brophy <timbrophy at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> {6.123233995736766E-17*(t+0.0)+t**(3.0)+4.0,t+0.0-6.123233995736766E-17*(t**(3.0)+4.0)-0.0}


I don't believe gnuplot is really needed, and you received that warning because of the overly complex way your parametric function was specified. Instead of the above, try

{t^3+4,t} 

so that that Tikz doesn't think that non-integer powers are called for.

Michael