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Chapter 1
Year 2021

1.1 Thursday, May 27, 2021

1.1.1 Top new questions this week

Is Internal‘StringToDouble broken in 12.3?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=246449

I believe Internal`StringToDouble was the only way to fast convert string into numbers. Now in V12.3 it was removed: Internal`StringToDouble["1"]

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answered by Itai Seggev https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4848 20 votes

in V 12.3, expression in notebook shakes when scrolling mouse to edit them. How to stop this effect?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=246400

I noticed in V 12.3, when trying to edit an expression in a cell, and moving/scrolling the mouse, the expression itself shakes. It seems to auto-resize or adjust while one is editing it. This does not ...

asked by Nasser https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=70 14 votes

answered by MassDefect https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=42264 16 votes

Programming language prototyping in Mathematica

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=246507

Are you aware of any projects using the Wolfram language resp. Mathematica as an environment to explore the design of programming languages - in particular languages with a focus on mathematics (...

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answered by Anton Antonov https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=34008 18 votes

WriteString to TCP socket appears to be broken in Mathematica 12.3

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=246444

I have a large codebase in which some functions make calls to Python TCP servers. The code used to work perfectly in Mathematica 12.2, but has not worked since I ...

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answered by Dorian B. https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=23275 2 votes

DirichletCondition doesn’t always work with RegionBoundary

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=246520

I am trying to solve the heat equation on a circle with a square shaped hole in it. It works:

asked by Pillsy https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=531 9 votes

answered by Tim Laska https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=61809 11 votes

What are the key reasons for the performance improvements in 12.3?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=246476

The built in benchmark test on my stationary workstation shows an improvement from 2.82 to 5.99, all other hardware and operating systems settings the same. This looks very good. My question is: What ...

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answered by Dan https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=42162 5 votes

Default window size too small in version 12.3 (in Windows 10)

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=246466

After starting Mathematica 12.3, the default window size is like this, it’s too small for me, I dont want to manually drag the window every time. I have tried this,

asked by matrix89 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5379 7 votes

1.1.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

Multivariable Taylor expansion does not work as expected

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=15023

The basic multivariable Taylor expansion formula around a point is as follows:

\[ f(\mathbf r + \mathbf a) = f(\mathbf r) + (\mathbf a \cdot \nabla )f(\mathbf r) + \frac {1}{2!}(\mathbf a \cdot \nabla ) \]

asked by matheorem https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4742 65 votes

answered by Jens https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=245 73 votes

How to calculate contour integrals with Mathematica?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=34073

How to calculate the integral of \(\frac {1}{\sqrt {4 z^2 + 4 z + 3}}\) over the unit circle counterclockwise for each branch of the integrand?

asked by user64494 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=7152 42 votes

answered by Artes https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=184 64 votes

What does "Tag Integer is Protected" message mean?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=6738

(Newbie question)

For every function I define I get this message: When I close and reopen Mathematica, and re-enter the function definition, I don’t get the message anymore. What does it mean?

asked by stevenvh https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1450 11 votes

answered by J. M.’s ennui https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=50 13 votes

Is there an open source implementation of Mathematica-the-language?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=4454

I’ve seen questions before such as "What is the best open-source equivalent for Mathematica?", but that specific question (and that line of inquiry in general) cares more about the computer algebra ...

asked by sblom https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=178 124 votes

answered by Simon https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=34 86 votes

How to express trigonometric equation in terms of of given trigonometric function?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=434

How can I express a trigonometric equation / identity in terms of a given trigonometric function?

using following trigonometric identities

asked by Prashant Bhate https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=99 30 votes

answered by Simon https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=34 37 votes

How can I plot a graph of an integral?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=78451

I want to plot the following function:

\[ \int \left (\frac {\Gamma (x+1)}{2}-\frac {\Gamma (x-1)}{2}\right ) \, dx \]

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answered by k_v https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=24727 9 votes

Find eigen energies of time-independent Schrödinger equation

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I’m trying to get the eigenvalues of a one dimensional time-independent Schrödinger equation,

\(-\frac {h^2}{2m_0}\frac {d^2\psi }{dx^2}+U(x)~\psi =Ei~\psi \)

where \(U(x)\) is some potential and Ei is the ...

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answered by Jens https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=245 46 votes

1.1.3 Can you answer these questions?

What is "Flatten" doing to my elements?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=246395

Here’s some of my code. x1 results in returning the position of a list in a {{{n1}},{{n2}}...}. Im trying to flatten it such that the list reads out as {n1,n2,n3....} some how it’s adding elements.

asked by MT Cup https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=79502 1 vote

Inconsistent boundary and initial conditions when solving sine Gordon equation

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=246596

I have been trying to solve the following sine Gordon equation \(\partial _{x,x} u(x,t) - \partial _{t,t} u(x,t) - \sin (u(x,t)) - \alpha \partial _t u(x,t) + \gamma = 0\), for \(x \in [0,15]\) and

asked by t Lê Thành https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=68852 1 vote

Step-by-step solution for a Limit

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=246560

Is it possible in Mathematica to get a step-by-step evaluation of some functions? Such that Mathematica is outputting not only the result but all the stages that have led to it? If so, how does one do ...

asked by putti.123 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=80178 1 vote

1.2 Thursday, May 20, 2021

1.2.1 Top new questions this week

Stable fluids code for electromagnetic mixture application

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=246091

This code has been translated from the original Jos Stam code and improved with some Mathematica functions. It solves problem of viscous incompressible flow with electromagnetic force in a rectangle ...

asked by Alex Trounev https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=58388 14 votes

answered by xzczd https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1871 11 votes

How can I create an animation showing how a circular sector deformed to a cone?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=246171

I want to create the following animation with Mathematica.

What is the simplest way to do so? My first effort:

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answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 7 votes

Dataset from association of lists doesn’t work

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=246088

Mathematica 12 on wolfram cloud isn’t rendering the table for an association of lists. According to the documentation you should be able to make columns in the table by:

However I tried this

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answered by WReach https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=142 9 votes

Creating the Yin Yang symbol with minimal code

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=246309

The following code creates the Yin Yang symbol

asked by nilo de roock https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=156 9 votes

answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 15 votes

On the ordering of the vertices of a polygon

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=245994

Writing:

pts = {{1, 0}, {2, 0}, {2, 3}, {3, 3}, {3, 4}, {0, 4}, {0, 3}, {1, 3}, {1, 0}}; 
Graphics[{Red, Point[pts], Blue, Line[pts]}]

we get:

and all of this ...

asked by Rolex https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=80016 9 votes

answered by Tim Laska https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=61809 15 votes

Is it possible to vary the thickness of curves according to their color code

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=246125 I have this data data = Table[{x, Sin[5 x], Tanh[3 x]}, {x, -1, 1, 0.01}];

which I plot as follows

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answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 6 votes

How can I style a Line like "Glassrectangle"?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=246046

I’d like a thick Line to look like ChartElementFunction -> "GlassRectangle" How can that be accomplished?

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answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 11 votes

1.2.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

What’s the most difficult multidimensional integral that Mathematica has solved?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=222184

I am interested in benchmarking numerical integration methods and am trying to develop a wider set of difficult multivariate examples. For my particular methods, I only want to look at non-negative-...

asked by ben18785 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=19278 6 votes

Extract real part of a complex expression better than Re does

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=3306

I have a complex expression with real positive variables only.

Mathematica Input Style:

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answered by nixeagle https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=814 54 votes

Exporting graphics to PDF - huge file

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=1542

I want to draw some basic surfaces, export them to PDF and include them in a LaTeX file. I create a simple 3D graphics object, for instance with

asked by Matthew Leingang https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=395 109 votes

My Girlfriend is going to prison...Save her with Math

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=135937

Salacious title, but true story.

asked by Prisoners Dilema https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=46025 42 votes

answered by bobthechemist https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=7167 23 votes

How to plot an ellipse?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=20100

I’m new to Mathematica, and I’m finding it difficult to plot an ellipse. I tried using

 Plot[(x/5)^2 + (y/3)^2 == 1, {x, -5, 5}, {y, -3, 3}]

but I’m getting ...

asked by Sriram https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=6075 18 votes

answered by Jens https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=245 30 votes

Is there something like DensityPlot3D to visualize atomic orbitals?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=32378

I’m visualizing some hydrogen like atomic orbitals. For looking at plane slices of the probability density, the DensityPlot function works well, and with something ...

asked by Peeter Joot https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=10 45 votes

answered by xslittlegrass https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1364 25 votes

Calling Correct Function for Plotting DiracDelta

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=3506

I am wondering what is the correct function in Mathematica to plot the true impulse function, better known as the DiracDelta[] function. When using this inside of a ...

asked by night owl https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=116 17 votes

answered by Heike https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=46 19 votes

1.2.3 Can you answer these questions?

Speeding up this function?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=246242 Is there a way to speed this function?

asked by An old man in the sea. https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=11313 2 votes

Error when integrating with constants?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=246300

I’m trying to integrate an ellipse: (x^2)/alpha^2) + ((y^2)/beta^2) = 1. I am not sure if I should have insert constants for alpha and beta or if there’s a way to keep them there.

This is my code

asked by user80088 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=80088 1 vote

answered by Daniel Huber https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=46318 0 votes

Is there an analog of ArrayQ for datasets?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=246152

ArrayQ provides a nice way to check for missing data (specifically, it checks if the array is ragged). But if you import your data as a dataset, and apply ArrayQ, it will return False for both ragged ...

asked by theorist https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=45215 1 vote

1.3 Thursday, May 13, 2021

1.3.1 Top new questions this week

Finding "chains" of numbers in a matrix

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=245937

To give some context, this problem is related to music theory. I have a matrix I’m generating with this code:

asked by Eriek https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=18649 6 votes

answered by thorimur https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=63584 9 votes

How to formulate this problem in Mathematica?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=245908

Say, I have the following expressions

f = R[p] 
g = S[p]

where R,S are rational functions, and I want to find a polynomial such that

asked by nilo de roock https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=156 6 votes

answered by Roman https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=26598 11 votes

Problem with optimal control and Pontryagin’s maximum principle

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=245797

For dynamic system: \(\dot {x}=\frac {df}{dx}+u\) where \(f=e^{-x^2}\) It is necessary to develop optimal control, minimizing criterion: \(J= \int _{0}^{t_f} ((\frac {df}{dx})^2+u^2) \,dt \) Algorithm:

We ...

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answered by Alex Trounev https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=58388 7 votes

Sorting Associations by DayName (day of week) using KeySort and/or KeySortBy

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=245721

I have an association where the keys are the days of the week:

asked by theorist https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=45215 6 votes

answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 6 votes

Using the PowerPoint’s laser pointer in symbols of plots

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=245800

I am interested in exploiting a symbol that is similar to the PowerPoint’s laser pointer in the role of PlotMarkers. Is there any idea to create that!? This symbol ...

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answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 12 votes

How would one add Hyperreals as a new type to Mathematica?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=245782

Hyperreals are an extension to the real numbers; they formalise the concepts of infinities and infinitestimals as numbers, rather than the named limit points outside of the system of reals and form ...

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Extract held value from Association

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=245784

Consider an association which contains a key which must not be prematurely evaluated. assoc = <| key :> value |>

For example, a value of ...

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answered by Leonid Shifrin https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=81 6 votes

1.3.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

1 Plot, 2 Scale/Axis

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=627

I would like to plot those two datasets on top of each other. But they have very different range on the \(y\) axis. How can I have two different axis?

I found the following on the help menu but quite ...

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answered by ArgentoSapiens https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=92 152 votes

How to perform a multi-peak fitting?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=26336

I am wondering how to implement the multi-peak detecting and fitting in Mathematica. Following is an example of fitting the data using three peaks (such that the data ~ peak1 + peak2 + peak3). The ...

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answered by Silvia https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=17 55 votes

Standard deck of 52 playing cards in curated data?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=16108

I am not sure how to find out what all is included as curated data. For example, are the individual images of each of the 52 cards in a standard deck of playing cards included?

If not, is there a way ...

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answered by rm -rf https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5 23 votes

Is it possible to export the equations from Mathematica to MATLAB?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=14035

Is it possible to export the output expressions from Mathematica computations (e.g., equations) in valid MATLAB syntax?

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answered by rm -rf https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5 48 votes

LaTeXand Mathematica

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=736

I quite often would like to draw graphics in my LaTeXdocuments using Mathematica. I have encountered three problems. I would like to know if there are any workarounds to these problems

I would ...

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answered by Simon https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=34 46 votes

How can I plot implicit equations?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=34668

If you enter the following into Wolfram | Alpha, you get nice graphs:

graph 4 x^4 + y^2 = 2

How do you do this in Mathmatica? I realize that these are not ...

asked by Rollie https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=10174 40 votes

answered by Timothy Wofford https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9391 41 votes

Calling Correct Function for Plotting DiracDelta

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=3506

I am wondering what is the correct function in Mathematica to plot the true impulse function, better known as the DiracDelta[] function. When using this inside of a ...

asked by night owl https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=116 17 votes

answered by Heike https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=46 19 votes

1.3.3 Can you answer these questions?

Excess lines in the solution plot of vector ODE

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=245826

I’ve got an ODE system, which I attempt to solve by two ways: solving the system itself, and using vector ODE. Here is code of first way:

asked by Cpp Nosavvier https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=79893 3 votes

Algorithmically imposing a substitution in a difficult integral

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=245884

Consider the following integral: \[ I = \frac {1}{\pi c^2} \int \limits _{r=0}^c 2 \pi r\ e^{-\frac { \left ( \sqrt {a^2 - r^2} -\sqrt {b^2 - r^2} \right )}{\lambda }}\ dr \] under the conditions \(a>b>c>\)...

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How to expand a rational function as a single fraction

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This has been annoying me for a long time. I want a rational function to be represented in the form \[\frac {a_nx^n+....a_0x^0}{b_mx^m+....b_0x^0}\] But this seems to be quite difficult. Mathematica ...

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1.4 Thursday, April 29, 2021

1.4.1 Top new questions this week

Replacing duplicates instead of deleting them

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My code replaces each repeated element by "X".

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answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 18 votes

RecurrenceTable and While

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=2450308

Good day. Let’s take an example from Help on RecurrenceTable

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answered by Roman https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=26598 3 votes

Speed up averaging of numerically solved differential equations

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I deals with a coupled system with non-linear differential equations of first order. I perform numerical solution with NDSolve and then use obtained solutions,

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answered by Alex Trounev https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=58388 1 vote

FEM: how to redo a composed boundary mesh for better quality?

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Suppose you have region with 2 materials: one embedding material matrix containing some particles

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answered by Tim Laska https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=61809 5 votes

Were these Images made with Wolfram Language / Mathematica?

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I am currently writing a paper in which Fibonacci Spirals are discussed. In the text of the paper the mathematics of these objects is discussed and the relevant equations and relationships are shown ...

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answered by flinty https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=72682 9 votes

How to find the repeated elements in a vector

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Is there a way to write a function where the input is a vector and the output is the elements in the vector that are repeated? I was trying to use something along the lines:

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answered by Roman https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=26598 7 votes

How to separate two regions in DensityPlot

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I want to separate two regions in DensityPlot similar to the attached image.

In my code and the obtained result, I want to separate the region with less value of one from others. How can I do this? ...

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answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 4 votes

1.4.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

How to graph a sphere with cartesian equations?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=24169

I’m new to Mathematica and I need to ask how to graph a sphere, cylinder, etc.. using cartesian equations.

For example in sphere’s case \(x^2+y^2+z^2=1\)

I tried to use ...

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answered by Dr. belisarius https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=193 14 votes

Parallel and perpendicular symbol from Mathematica to LaTeX

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I want to get the following expression from Mathematica to LaTeX:

\[ \begin {bmatrix} E_{\parallel } \\ E_{\perp } \end {bmatrix} \]

I have tried to use inbuilt ’symbol’ character from the special ...

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answered by Sjoerd C. de Vries https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=57 27 votes

How do I make a 3DPlot using cylindrical coordinates?

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I’m trying to plot a function of the form \(z(r,\theta )\) where \(r \in [0, R]\) for a finite R, \(\theta \in [0,2\pi [\), and z is the third coordinate, a function of the first two. I couldn’t find anything ...

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What does Compile[] do to make code run so much faster?

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I am looking for an ELI5 explanation of whatCompile[] in the Wolfram Language context does and why it works so much faster than uncompiled code in certain cases. I am trying to get more insight to ...

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answered by chasly - supports Monica https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=34024 9 votes

How do I clear all user defined symbols?

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Is there some way to do this other than going to Evaluation -> Quit kernel and firing a new one up?

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answered by Artes https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=184 98 votes

Formatting legend text font

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I am using this code to plot a graph, and I am trying to make the font of the legend bigger.

asked by Julia https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=525 20 votes

answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 25 votes

How can I plot the direction field for a differential equation?

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I’d like to plot the graph of the direction field for a differential equation, to get a feel for it. I’m a novice, right now, when it comes to plotting in Mathematica, so I’m hoping that someone can ...

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answered by Peter Breitfeld https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=307 26 votes

1.4.3 Can you answer these questions?

Artifacts When Plotting Results of Numerical Integration

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I am trying to reproduce the following graph of phase shifts as function of frequency.

Please see my code bellow. I used Mathematica to solve for t1 and ...

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How to solve a system with infinitely many equations?

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I need to solve the following system of (infinitely many) equations. I am looking for \(V(0,0)\)

\(t \in \{0,1,2.....\}\) with one caveat that \(s \leq 1+t\) should hold.

\( s \in \{1,2,3,L-1\}\)

fixed ...

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Custom multiplication operation between variables

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I am constructing polynomial expressions in the variables \(s[0],s[1],...,s[n]\) and I’m trying to define a new operation to simplify the expression:

asked by David https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=72836 1 vote

1.5 Thursday, April 22, 2021

1.5.1 Top new questions this week

joining three lists to plot data with errors

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=244887

I have three lists:

x = {x1, x2, ...}, 
y = {y1, y2, ...}, 
yErr = {y1Err, y2Err, ...}

that I want to join into the following format:

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answered by Ulrich Neumann https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=53677 9 votes

Interpreting traditional math

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=244672

There are two ways (afaik) to parse traditional math string to an expression:

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answered by Kuba https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5478 3 votes

Is it possible to define conjugate of a function?

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Could you help me, please? I have two complex functions of real variable f[x] and fc[x] such that one is a conjugate of another one. I’d like to take a conjugate of an expression that includes both of ...

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answered by Daniel Huber https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=46318 9 votes

Maximal circle packing inside a given square

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How to pack n equal disks(radius a/2) with maximal area inside a given rectangle ? I’m trying to solve this problem using Mathematicas Region functions. Here my approach: Maximize the area of the ...

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answered by cvgmt https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=72111 6 votes

Some doubts about symbolic equations in Wolfram Mathematica

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I need to perform the following operations using Wolfram Mathematica. I have these equations: \[a b = c+d+e\] \[\frac {d}{f}=g h + i\] \[k=\frac {a}{c}\] I need to obtain \(k\) as a function of: \(a,b,c,e,\dots \)

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answered by Bob Hanlon https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9362 9 votes

Count number of balls in each bin, given a two-element sequence of balls and bins

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If I have a list:

{ball,ball,BINDIVIDER,ball,ball,ball,BINDIVIDER,BINDIVIDER,ball,BINDIVIDER,ball}

The balls and bins can be in any permutation. Then, the ...

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answered by WReach https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=142 6 votes

FEM: elastic cylinder under circumferential pressure

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Suppose you have an elastic cylinder of radius \(R\) and height \(H\) and you want to solve the mechanical 3D equilibrium with Mathematica’s FEM. How do you impose a pressure \(p\) only on the cylinder ...

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answered by user21 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=18437 4 votes

1.5.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

Plot data from txt file?

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I have data in file.txt which can be expressed by 20000x11 matrix. I do not want to import all of these data. How can I plot graph of the column 1 & column 4?

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answered by user1066 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=106 24 votes

How to make a Spherical Cow?

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Being a theoretical physicist, I always have a great respect for Spherical Cow. So I thought about making one myself. I am not sure how can I create (something considered to be the simplest!) this ...

asked by Sumit https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=8070 69 votes

answered by andre314 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5467 76 votes

What are the most common pitfalls awaiting new users?

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As you may already know, Mathematica is a wonderful piece of software. However, it has a few characteristics that tend to confuse new (and sometimes not-so-new) users. That can be clearly seen from ...

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answered by Michael E2 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4999 288 votes

My Girlfriend is going to prison...Save her with Math

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=135937

Salacious title, but true story.

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answered by bobthechemist https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=7167 23 votes

Plotting the Star of Bethlehem

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Christmas is around the corner! In preparation, consider the polynomial f[x_,y_]:= 1/10 (4 - x^2 - 2 y^2)^2 + 1/2 (x^2 + y^2) 

and define \(r=(f_x,f_y)\) using the ...

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answered by Roman https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=26598 22 votes

Generate a Unit Circle Trigonometry

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=2456

Struggling often with Trigonometry I would like to have some code to generate this Unit Circle Trigonometry. Would be of great help when I need to transform some data :

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answered by Mark McClure https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=36 32 votes

Extract real part of a complex expression better than Re does

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=3306

I have a complex expression with real positive variables only.

Mathematica Input Style:

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answered by nixeagle https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=814 53 votes

1.5.3 Can you answer these questions?

Understanding the behavior of HypergeometricPFQ

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this is my very post here, so I apologize for any possible format issue. I am using HypergeometricPFQ functions (more exactly \(_3F_2\)) as approximants for other more complicated functions. Here are ...

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recursively find StringCases

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=244663

Can I recursively extract StringCases[] that match a specific pattern? Here is a minimalist example (not my actual problem):

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How to specify custom Loss function for Predict

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How can I use Predict[Xs->Ys, Method->"NeuralNetwork"] to predict 90%-quantile (instead of mean value)? Utility Function does not work well for this case, because

it assumes ...

asked by Artem Vorozhtsov https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=61755 2 votes

1.6 Thursday, April 15, 2021

1.6.1 Top new questions this week

Is there a neat code to swap elements of a list?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=244314

I want to swap the list to make a new list as follows. The code works but I’m wondering if there is a neat code, or an elegant way to do this.

asked by anhnha https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=18805 9 votes

answered by kirma https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3056 10 votes

Stokes equations in 2D with traction boundary conditions

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This is a follow-up to a previous question (see here). We would like to solve the two-dimensional Stokes equations using the FEM package in Mathematica, when we prescribe traction boundary conditions. ...

asked by Alex R https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=78043 7 votes

answered by Oleksii Semenov https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=63028 3 votes

Transform a number to a factorial

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I came across the need to transform a number into a factorial n, with positive integer n. I have searched in the MMA information but I can’t find anything like that. I imagine an input, which verifies ...

asked by zeros https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=26849 7 votes

answered by Bob Hanlon https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9362 6 votes

Stopping condition for FindMinimum / FindMaximum

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This seems like it should be a simple question – but I am looking to use a "home made" stopping condition with FindMaximum, while evaluating a very complex function. Printing out the ...

asked by Richard E https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=79342 7 votes

answered by Daniel Huber https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=46318 8 votes

Efficiently compute Minkowski sum of a 2D Region and a Disc of radius r?

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Given a 2D Mathematica Region, e.g. A = Region[RegionDifference[Disk[{0, 0}, 2], Disk[{2, 0}, 1]]], how can I grow the region by an arbitrary radius r? For example, ...

asked by Aaron T. Becker https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=76690 6 votes

answered by cvgmt https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=72111 5 votes

Random orthogonal matrix

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Is there a way to generate real random orthogonal matrices in mathematica? If Q is an orthogonal matrix, it’s properties are

asked by Jasmine https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=73364 6 votes

answered by Henrik Schumacher https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=38178 9 votes

Detecting patterns in a graph network

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=244592

If we create a random graph

Chop[LowerTriangularize[RandomReal[{-1, 1}, {10, 10}], -1], 0.6] /.0 -> \[Infinity] // MatrixForm 
WeightedAdjacencyGraph[%]

How can ...

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answered by Szabolcs https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=12 6 votes

1.6.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

What do the X and Y axis stand for in the Fourier transform domain?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=85139

In Wolfram Mathematica the function Fourier has the following declaration

Fourier[list]

And after a list is given to the ...

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answered by Hugh https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=12558 61 votes

Plot, extract data to a file

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=19859

I need to save data that Mathematica uses inside the Plot command. The format that I would like to have is:

x1 y1 
x2 y2

asked by molkee https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5097 30 votes

answered by Mr.Wizard https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=121 47 votes

Get a "step-by-step" evaluation in Mathematica

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Is it possible in Mathematica to get a step-by-step evaluation of some functions; that’s to say, outputting not only the result but all the stages that have led to it? If so, how does one do it?

asked by Cydonia7 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=44 131 votes

answered by J. M.’s ennui https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=50 109 votes

How to add a vertical line to a plot

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In the plot below I would like to add two vertical lines at \(x = \frac {\pi }{15} \pm \frac {1}{20}\). How can I do that?

asked by sjdh https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=515 64 votes

answered by Ajasja https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=745 83 votes

Selecting every n-th element from a list

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=64003 I have a list:

data = {4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 5, 3, 2, 1, 2, 13, 12};

I want to take those elements in the list which are located at equal distances, say, every third ...

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answered by Szabolcs https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=12 34 votes

How to graph a sphere with cartesian equations?

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I’m new to Mathematica and I need to ask how to graph a sphere, cylinder, etc.. using cartesian equations.

For example in sphere’s case \(x^2+y^2+z^2=1\)

I tried to use ...

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Conversion of Sine to Cosine

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I’m solving equations with many Cosines and Sines. And I want to convert all the Sines to Cosines using trigonometric formulas such as cos(x)=sin(x+pi/2). How can I do this?

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1.6.3 Can you answer these questions?

RandomInstance of GeometricScene producing unexpected result

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Consider the following scene as an example:

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Solving an ordinary differential equation with boundary condition at infinity

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I want to solve the following differential equation  f''[z] + (1/z)*f'[z] - f[z] + f[z]^3 == 0

subject to the boundary conditions

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answered by Mariusz Iwaniuk https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=26828 0 votes

How to use ScalingFunctions with Graphics ChartElements

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How to draw spheres with BubbleChart with a reversed vertical axis? The 3rd example shows the problem (empty plot), likely caused by the transformation, but how to correct it?

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1.7 Thursday, April 1, 2021

1.7.1 Top new questions this week

Are Mathematica’s maps copyright-free?

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Are the maps available in Mathematica copyright-free? For instance, if I generate the image

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answered by Carl Lange https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=57593 24 votes

Find all English words that can be comprised of Element Abbreviations found in the Periodic Table

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This question is majorely influenced by a meme...

Now, I thought... it would be interesting to see what kind of "passwords" could one derive using Periodic Table :D Hence, I began to work ...

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Efficient uniform sampling of certain Boolean matrices

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I want to uniformly sample \((0,1)\)-matrices with certain constraints. In particular, I want sum of each row to be rowsum and the sums of columns to equal ...

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Incorrect integration from article?

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Recently I came across an interesting article by Daniel Lichtblau, where the integral

Integrate[Abs[x - y]^n, {x, 0, 1}, {y, 0, 1}]

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Running Mathematica in ’SpouseMode’

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In this previous question I looked into a deprecated capability of Mathematica from Version 2. Mathematica command that allows it to read my intentions Thanks to all for your answers. I note that ...

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answered by MikeY https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=47314 1 vote

Putting together several ListPlot 2D in a 3D graphic

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I’m trying to put together several different 2D plots in a 3D graphics to create a figure which would be like the one below (taken from https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4998724 However my ...

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Combine SortBy with ReverseSortBy

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Suppose I have a dataset, which I want to sort according to two criteria. However, I want the first criteria to be sorted ascending, and the second descending. This would require to somehow combine ...

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1.7.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

How to add a front-end to the free Wolfram Engine?

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https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/05/launching-today-free-wolfram-engine-for-developers/

http://www.wolfram.com/engine/

The Free Wolfram Engine for Developers is available for pre-production ...

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answered by Alexey Golyshev https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=23402 55 votes

How to express trigonometric equation in terms of of given trigonometric function?

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How can I express a trigonometric equation / identity in terms of a given trigonometric function?

using following trigonometric identities

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What’s the most difficult multidimensional integral that Mathematica has solved?

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I am interested in benchmarking numerical integration methods and am trying to develop a wider set of difficult multivariate examples. For my particular methods, I only want to look at non-negative-...

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Standard deck of 52 playing cards in curated data?

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I am not sure how to find out what all is included as curated data. For example, are the individual images of each of the 52 cards in a standard deck of playing cards included?

If not, is there a way ...

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Even Fibonacci numbers

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Today, I found the Euler Project. Problem #2 is

Each new term in the Fibonacci sequence is generated by adding the previous two terms. By starting with 1 and 2, the first 10 terms will be:

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How do I clear all user defined symbols?

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Is there some way to do this other than going to Evaluation -> Quit kernel and firing a new one up?

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How to perform a multi-peak fitting?

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I am wondering how to implement the multi-peak detecting and fitting in Mathematica. Following is an example of fitting the data using three peaks (such that the data ~ peak1 + peak2 + peak3). The ...

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1.7.3 Can you answer these questions?

pure function assignment

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I do not understand this statement from the Introduction to Dynamic tutorial:

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answered by MarcoB https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=27951 0 votes

Graphics get cropped when wrapped in Hyperlink and Inset in MMA 12.2 (doesn’t seem to happen on 12.1 RPi) Bug?

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I’ve noticed that wrapping a Graphic[] in Hyperlink[] causes weird things to happen when using ...

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Does Mathematica have build-in function to compute dimension of square polynomial system?

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I’m working with square polynomial systems and wish to know if a (small) system has a finite number of solutions. That is, if it’s zero-dimensional. I’m not aware of any built-in function to do this ...

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1.8 Thursday, March 25, 2021

1.8.1 Top new questions this week

Head[x] vs x[[0]]?

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Can we say Head[x] and x[[0]] are identical ? In mathematica manual I could find : ’The head is the part with index 0’

But I am not sure whether Head[x] are x[[0]] are really interchangeable in any ...

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answered by Leonid Shifrin https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=81 13 votes

How to roll a graph on the y-axis

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I want to roll the function f(x)=sqrt(x), x[0,1] along the y-axis. I know how to rotate the graph around a point, but I’m not sure how to rotate along an axis in 2D. Rotating around a point e.g. (0,...

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Numerically solving Helmholtz equation in 2D for a Guitar

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Hi I am new to using Mathematica, so am not too confident. I am essentially trying to model vibrations of a guitar sound board for a project. It would be great to get some visualisations of the ...

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answered by Tim Laska https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=61809 8 votes

How to draw the tree in a "pitchfork" form?

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How to set the options or other parameters in a TreePlot to draw the branching outside of the vertex? I.e. in a form similar to a dendrogram (but the dendrogram plot itself does not support the ...

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answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 9 votes

Digitizing a geometrical sensor

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I want to quantify the flow from photos taken from a sensor such as this one:

For a limited number of readings, I can use a plot digitization method. However, I need to do this many times for ...

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answered by MelaGo https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=63360 10 votes

How Can I Compute The Automorphism Group of a Matroid?

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I want to compute the automorphism group of a matroid. This reduces to the following (more general) problem: Suppose I have a list of sets \(\{\{b_{11},\dots ,b_{1k}\},\dots ,\{b_{k1},\dots ,b_{kk}\}\}\) ...

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answered by Madeline Brandt https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=51040 6 votes

How to make a circular heat map or diagram in Mathematica?

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Is there any way to make a circular heat map in Mathematica? Thanks for your help! Here is a toy example for regular heat map. Can anyone help me make it to a circular one?

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1.8.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

How can I draw the Olympic rings with Mathematica??

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How can I draw the 5 interlocking Olympic rings with Mathematica? (SVG version) Edit

Hard choice, but some pretty cool answers here. I didn’t have 3D answers in mind when I posted the question, but ...

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answered by cormullion https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=61 23 votes

Plot, extract data to a file

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I need to save data that Mathematica uses inside the Plot command. The format that I would like to have is:

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What does "Tag Integer is Protected" message mean?

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(Newbie question)

For every function I define I get this message: When I close and reopen Mathematica, and re-enter the function definition, I don’t get the message anymore. What does it mean?

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Selecting every n-th element from a list

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I have a list:

data = {4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 5, 3, 2, 1, 2, 13, 12};

I want to take those elements in the list which are located at equal distances, say, every third ...

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Labeling individual curves in Mathematica

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I need to create a plot for export and inclusion in a report. Is there a better way to label curves than PlotLegends? From what I’ve read and my personal experience,...

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answered by Artes https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=184 47 votes

Help find a bright object on Mars!

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In today’s news, scientists found a bright object on one of Curiosity’s photos (it’s near the bottom of the picture below). It’s a bit tricky to find - I actually spent quite some time staring at the ...

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answered by Niki Estner https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=242 261 votes

Plotting the frequency spectrum of a data series using Fourier

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testData = Table[N@Sin[500 x], {x, 0, 100}]; 
ListLinePlot[Abs[Fourier[testData]], PlotRange -> Full]

Gives me Which I do not expect because the Fourier ...

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answered by KennyColnago https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3246 16 votes

1.8.3 Can you answer these questions?

Is the fancy script ’C’ mathscrC available in Mathematica?

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In mathjax \mathscr{C} gives me the character $\mathscr{C}$ that I want. There is a UTF listing for this character. https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D49E If I copy form this webpage and paste ...

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FormFunction output automatic download

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I want to create a FormFunction that takes in a CSV file, applies some operations on the data and outputs another CSV file. I would like for the ouput CSV file to be automatically downloaded. I have a ...

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Generating a lattice by \(N^{th}\) iteration of unit cell

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This question is in continuation of the my previous question that was not clearly presented by me at all. I have a unit cell, and I would like to generate a lattice but in iterative order. For ...

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1.9 Thursday, March 18, 2021

1.9.1 Top new questions this week

Why am I getting that \(0.999999999999988 \geq 1.0\) is True?

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I am getting these results:

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answered by Chip Hurst https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4346 23 votes

Can we make an "Outerable" Attribute?

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We can declare a function to have the Listable Attribute so that it automatically threads over lists in a particular way. For functions of multiple arguments it ...

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answered by Michael E2 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4999 8 votes

How to fit a curve in a picture with an equation?

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For a curve taken from a picture, is there any method to fit it with an equation if it appears to be some standard curve? For example, in the following picture, the curve looks like an ellipse or a ...

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answered by mikado https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=36788 9 votes

Bug with Json payload with diacritics for HTTPRequest

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Working in the creations of APIs with Mathematica 12.2, I got this problem with diacritics when sending JSON data. Here is a toy code using httpbin.

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answered by Kuba https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5478 8 votes

How to plot a "main effect" plot?

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I’m trying to make a "main effect" type chart but I haven’t found a way to do it in Mathematica. The main effect plots are the graphs plotting the means for each value of a categorical ...

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answered by MassDefect https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=42264 11 votes

generating tuples of ones and zeroes with a fixed number of ones

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I would like to generate all the tuples of ones and zeros of a given length and with a given number of ones without generating all the possible tuples, which is impossible for tuples of large enough ...

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answered by Roman https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=26598 10 votes

How to add an attractive potential (migration term) named component to Mass Transport PDE

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Wolfram Mathematica 12.2 now features "Named Partial Differential Equation Terms"

For specific physics fields, relevant PDE terms have been packaged as components and augmented with ...

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answered by Tim Laska https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=61809 4 votes

1.9.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

Plotting the frequency spectrum of a data series using Fourier

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testData = Table[N@Sin[500 x], {x, 0, 100}]; 
ListLinePlot[Abs[Fourier[testData]], PlotRange -> Full]

Gives me Which I do not expect because the Fourier ...

asked by C. E. https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=731 14 votes

answered by KennyColnago https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3246 16 votes

Is there something like DensityPlot3D to visualize atomic orbitals?

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I’m visualizing some hydrogen like atomic orbitals. For looking at plane slices of the probability density, the DensityPlot function works well, and with something ...

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xkcd-style Plots

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I received an email to which I wanted to respond with a xkcd-style graph, but I couldn’t manage it. Everything I drew looked perfect, and I don’t have enough command over ...

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answered by Simon Woods https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=862 483 votes

Generate a Unit Circle Trigonometry

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Struggling often with Trigonometry I would like to have some code to generate this Unit Circle Trigonometry. Would be of great help when I need to transform some data :

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answered by Mark McClure https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=36 32 votes

Calculate the 2D Fourier transform of an Image

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I am new to Mathematica, and using version 8.0.

I would like to calculate the 2D Fourier Transform of an Image with Mathematica and plot the magnitude and phase ...

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answered by Nasser https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=70 33 votes

How can I plot implicit equations?

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If you enter the following into Wolfram Alpha, you get nice graphs:

graph 4 x^4 + y^2 = 2 

How do you do this in Mathmatica? I realize that these are not ...

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Oak Island, extending the "Alignment", possible Great Circle?

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During these days of COVID, I indulged in the guilty pleasure of watching The Curse of Oak Island - Season 8, Episode 4 Alignment, which viewed last night (1 Dec 2020). During the episode, some "...

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1.9.3 Can you answer these questions?

ColorFunction in ListContourPlot3D raising error when using more than one argument

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The documentation of ColorFunction states that in ListContourPlot3D your chosen function gets the arguments ...

asked by Fidel I. Schaposnik https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=45839 1 vote

Autocomplete file argument for custom function

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When typing Importin a notebook Mathematica suggests to autocomplete the file path you want to enter or choose a file using the GUI. Is there a way to let a ...

asked by Gert https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=27889 1 vote

Reduce the time to find six integer numbers so that the angle of two vectors equal to Pi/6

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I am trying to find six integer numbers a, b, c, x, y, z so that the angle of two vector {a, b, c ...

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answered by Daniel Huber https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=46318 0 votes

1.10 Thursday, March 11, 2021

1.10.1 Top new questions this week

Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm - Significantly slower than Python

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I would like to code a Metropolis Hasting algorithm and thought I would get the general scheme of things going with a toy example.

I think I got it running but my Mathematica code runs significantly ...

asked by Smerdjakov https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=55615 13 votes

answered by Henrik Schumacher https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=38178 22 votes

Manipulate for playing along with "Deal or No Deal?"

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I started building this Manipulate and am certain I can do so on my own, but thought it was fun enough that others might want to try. (If this is some abuse of the ...

asked by David G. Stork https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9735 9 votes

BoxWhiskerChart - how to show Quartile and other values

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I have a question in respect of the BoxWhiskerChart. The default functionality of BoxWhiskerChart is that you mouse over it and ...

asked by Jiri https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=77351 9 votes

answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 9 votes

Strictly Increasing Sequences of Length n in a List

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I need to determine how many strictly increasing sequences of a certain length (e.g. 5) are contained in a list of integers. I would be very happy if someone could help me. A sequence would be ...

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answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 9 votes

Wafer Chucking Model

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I am trying to calculate the pressure required to flatten a bowed wafer. The simple model I am using for the study has a bottom layer (the bowed wafer) pushed against a harder flat surface as shown in ...

asked by martin https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=77626 8 votes

answered by user21 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=18437 2 votes

Art on Mathematica: How can I export 4K resolution png images?

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This question is solely based upon \([1]\) and therefore, the reading of \([1]\) could be interesting. How can I export the image created, by the code in the following, with high definition, beautiful, 4K ...

asked by M.N.Raia https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=71570 8 votes

answered by thorimur https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=63584 10 votes

Skewed grid in plot

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Is is possible to add a skewed grid in a plot? Consider the following image;

The grey axes are the normal axes (\(\mathbf {e}_1\) and \(\mathbf {e}_2\)), the black axes are transformations \(\mathbf {e}'_1=2\)

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answered by Daniel Huber https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=46318 8 votes

1.10.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

Mathematica vs. Python - how does Mathematica compare to Python’s scientific computing suite?

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Python’s family of packages for scientific computing has matured rapidly. I can pretty much replicate all of Mathematica’s functionalities, but with production level and open-source code using the ...

asked by M.R. https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=403 49 votes

answered by Jens https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=245 36 votes

Exporting graphics to PDF - huge file

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I want to draw some basic surfaces, export them to PDF and include them in a LaTeX file. I create a simple 3D graphics object, for instance with

asked by Matthew Leingang https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=395 109 votes

answered by Heike https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=46 88 votes

How do I plot a plane EM wave?

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I would like to display an electromagnetic (EM) wave. I have written code that works, but it does not "shade" the area between the graph and the axes. Both the ...

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answered by J. M.’s ennui https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=50 16 votes

How to create animated snowfall?

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Well, the title is self-explanatory. What sorts of snowfall can we generate using Mathematica? There are two options I suggest to consider:

1) Continuous GIF animations with smallest possible number ...

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answered by Simon Woods https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=862 54 votes

Image processing: Floor plan - detecting rooms’ borders (area) and room names’ texts

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Here is a simple building floor plan. I would like to derive the rooms as (rectangular) components and the names of the rooms. This is very common representation of building floor plans.

The problem

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answered by Niki Estner https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=242 59 votes

Calculate the 2D Fourier transform of an Image

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I am new to Mathematica, and using version 8.0.

I would like to calculate the 2D Fourier Transform of an Image< with Mathematica and plot the magnitude and phase ...

asked by user8727 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=8727 17 votes

answered by Nasser https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=70 33 votes

What are the most common pitfalls awaiting new users?

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As you may already know, Mathematica is a wonderful piece of software. However, it has a few characteristics that tend to confuse new (and sometimes not-so-new) users. That can be clearly seen from ...

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answered by Michael E2 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4999 288 votes

1.10.3 Can you answer these questions?

Front-end rendering issues on Linux

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I’m using Mathematica 12.2 on Ubuntu Mate 20.10 on an AMD FX(tm)-8120 with a GeForce GTX 1070 Ti NVIDA card. The issue is that I get unwanted horizontal lines just below the cell that I’m working on ...

asked by c186282 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4515 1 vote

time series - minimum differencing order needed to remove the trend

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I was wondering how can I find What is the minimum differencing order needed to remove the trend in a time series? I have a a times series and a TimeSeriesModelFit, which is SARIMA model. I want to ...

asked by Pjana https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=75643 1 vote

How does ‘TextureCoordinateFunction[]‘ works within ‘SurfaceAppearance[]‘?

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Following up from @kglr's answer here, I’d like to understand how TextureCoordinateFunction[] works within SurfaceAppearance[]. ...

asked by martin https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9923 1 vote

1.11 Thursday, February 25, 2021

1.11.1 Top new questions this week

Mathematica 12.1: Don’t use Accumulate or Differences on Around objects!

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=240449

SUMMARY: If a List,TimeSeries etc. of Around objects contains any identical elements,

asked by Aaron Eiben https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=72186 14 votes

answered by Sjoerd Smit https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=43522 11 votes

How to enter a repeating decimal in Mathematica

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I don’t understand how to manipulate numbers with repeating decimal in Wolfram Mathematica language. For example 0.3... does not work as input and I don’t see how ...

asked by Simpleton Jack https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=22399 9 votes answered by J. M.’s ennui https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=50 11 votes

How to judge whether two groups of sequences are equal in cycles?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=240325

There’s a set of arrays that I want to remove repeated elements that are equal after rotation:

asked by A little mouse on the pampas https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=42417 9 votes

answered by Carl Woll https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=45431 11 votes

Simplify 1+Sqrt[2]I-Complex[1,Sqrt[2]]

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The expression 1+Sqrt[2]I-Complex[1,Sqrt[2]] should be zero. In fact, N[1+Sqrt[2]I-Complex[1,Sqrt[2]]] yields ...

asked by pdmclean https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9154 7 votes answered by Michael E2 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4999 10 votes

How to correctly calculate the number of seating plans for the 4-couples problem?

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Four couples a are sitting around a round table, in which husband and wife can not be adjacent. How many different seating plans are there? I want to get as many simple calculations as possible.

asked by A little mouse on the pampas https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=42417 7 votes

answered by Beny Izd https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=77079 8 votes

How to approximate \(PV\int _0^\infty \frac {\tan x}{x}\text {d}x?\)

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What’s the mathematica command to get the numerical value of : \[PV\int _0^\infty \frac {\tan x}{x}\text {d}x?\] where \(PV\) is the principal value.

asked by Ali Shadhar https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=67714 7 votes

answered by Michael E2 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4999 7 votes

Mirror image of graph

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I need to display a directed acyclic graph (say Hasse diagram of partial order) oriented with minimal elements at the bottom, maximal elements at the top as is conventional for Hasse diagrams. I tried ...

asked by Mike https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=62210 6 votes

answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 7 votes

1.11.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

LaTeX and Mathematica

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I quite often would like to draw graphics in my LaTeXdocuments using Mathematica. I have encountered three problems. I would like to know if there are any workarounds to these problems

I would ...

asked by Thomas Rot https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=227 127 votes

answered by Simon https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=34 46 votes

What’s the most difficult multidimensional integral that Mathematica has solved?

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I am interested in benchmarking numerical integration methods and am trying to develop a wider set of difficult multivariate examples. For my particular methods, I only want to look at non-negative-...

asked by ben18785 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=19278 6 votes

xkcd-style Plots

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I received an email to which I wanted to respond with a xkcd-style graph, but I couldn’t manage it. Everything I drew looked perfect, and I don’t have enough command over ...

asked by Amatya https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2039 620 votes

answered by Simon Woods https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=862 481 votes

Finding Limits in several variables

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=21544

Is there a way to find a limit of a multivariable function, like

\[\lim _{(x,y)\to (0,0)} f(x,y)\] with Mathematica?

When \(f\) is continuous, we can use \[\lim _{(x,y)\to (0,0)} f(x,y)=\]

asked by Dominic Michaelis https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5899 31 votes

answered by whuber https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=91 42 votes

How to use Mathematica functions in Python programs?

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I’d like to know how can I call Mathematica functions from Python.

I appreciate a example, for example, using the Mathematica function Prime.

I had search about MathLink but how to use it in Python ...

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answered by GarouDan https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1058 28 votes

Plot data from txt file?

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I have data in file.txt which can be expressed by 20000x11 matrix. I do not want to import all of these data. How can I plot graph of the column 1 & column 4?

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answered by user1066 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=106 24 votes

How to find integer solutions?

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Following is the equation: Need to solve for integer values of x,y when a,b lies between -1000 and 1000. Problem is to find the number of integer values of pair (x,y) that satisfy it.

asked by Sahil Sareen https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=12396 2 votes

answered by bill s https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1783 4 votes

1.11.3 Can you answer these questions?

Idiomatic pattern for subtracting a function from a list

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I would like to know a more idiomatic way to subtract a function from a list of pairs than this: Table[point-{0,fitFunction[point[[1]]]}, {point,data}]

I use this ...

asked by Diffycue https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=46327 1 vote

How can I simplify a symbolic tensor expression?

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My question is about simplifying tensor expressions. If I have \((a+b)\otimes (c+d)\) The function TensorExpand gives \(a\otimes c + a\otimes d + b\otimes c + b\otimes \) ...

asked by Physor https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=74507 2 votes

Nothing showing up on my LogLogPlots

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I am trying to make 2 log log plots. One with each equation, a and g. I don’t know why, but the plot is not showing up. My notebook is in the link below. https://imgur.com/a/sXQX0YS

What am I doing ...

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answered by Bob Hanlon https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9362 0 votes

1.12 Thursday, February 18, 2021

1.12.1 Top new questions this week

How to create a spiral using Golden Triangles

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Working with students in a pre-calculus class, an application of the sine law. They are working on a question that has them create a Golden Triangle (A golden triangle is an isosceles triangle in ...

asked by Tom De Vries https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=721 14 votes

answered by J. M.’s ennui https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=50 14 votes

How to modify default options of Dataset

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I try to make a dark stylesheet based on the ReverseColor theme. However, dataset headers are barely readable.

This question is related to others such as Question ...

asked by Vly https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=47700 9 votes

answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 8 votes

How to use Filling in PolarPlot?

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For example: PolarPlot[{1, 1 + 1/10 Sin[10 t]}, {t, 0, 2 Pi}]

how to fill color in the space between 2 functions?

asked by DORA https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=74396 8 votes

answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 11 votes

How to reduce timing to find the integer numbers a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, k, m of this equation?

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I use by hand to get this result \[\sqrt {48+5 \sqrt {3}+\sqrt {27+4\sqrt {3}+\sqrt {12+3 \sqrt {3}+\sqrt {4+2\sqrt {3}}}}}=1+4 \sqrt {3}\]

asked by minhthien_2016 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5320 7 votes

answered by yarchik https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9469 6 votes

How to extract a column (or a row) of a matrix as another column vector/ column matrix (or a row vector), not as a list?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=240123

Suppose I have a matrix ’mat’ as

mat = Table[Subscript[m, i, j], {i, 5}, {j, 5}]; 
mat // MatrixForm

I want to extract the first column (or any row) as

asked by PoreyS https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=54258 6 votes

answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 6 votes

Intuitive explanation of RemoteBatchSubmit[] in AWS for total novices?

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When I read Wolfram’s post about the new features in MMA 12.2 I was intrigued by RemoteBatchSubmit[]. He wrote:

I have only ever used MMA from my laptop, and never used any other cloud computing or ...

asked by TumbiSapichu https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=53229 6 votes

Solving a 2D heat equation on a square with Dirichlet boundary conditions

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I am trying to solve the following heat equation problem on the square [0,1]x[0,1]. 
\begin{equation*}  \begin{gathered}  u_t = u_{xx} + u_{yy} + f(x,y,t), \qquad  u(x,y,0) = 0, \qquad  u=0 \text{ on ...

asked by kroner https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=77278 6 votes

answered by Nasser https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=70 7 votes

1.12.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

Crack CAPTCHA using deep learning

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=143691

Deep convolutional neural networks are very good at computer vision related tasks. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is one important branch of computer vision. In fact, the convolution neural ...

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How to make an inkblot?

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How to effectively create a polygon that looks like a realistic inkblot? So far, I could come up with this (borrowing from Ed Pegg Jr.’s Rorschach demonstration):

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Generate a Unit Circle Trigonometry

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Struggling often with Trigonometry I would like to have some code to generate this Unit Circle Trigonometry. Would be of great help when I need to transform some data :

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Exporting graphics to PDF - huge file

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I want to draw some basic surfaces, export them to PDF and include them in a LaTeX file. I create a simple 3D graphics object, for instance with

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answered by Heike https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=46 88 votes

How to make the digits of go around in a spiral like this?

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Here is a start.

MapIndexed[Text[Reverse[First[RealDigits[Pi,10,252]]][[Tr@#2]],#]&, 
 Table[{t Cos[t],t Sin[t]},{t,0,16Pi,0.2}]]//Graphics

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How to create a new "person curve"?

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Wolfram|Alpha has a whole collection of parametric curves that create images of famous people. To see them, enter WolframAlpha["person curve"] into a Mathematica ...

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answered by Vitaliy Kaurov https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13 45 votes

How do I plot a plane EM wave?

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I would like to display an electromagnetic (EM) wave. I have written code that works, but it does not "shade" the area between the graph and the axes. Both the ...

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1.12.3 Can you answer these questions?

Unpacking list of arguments into parameters

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I have a list in the following form:  list = {{a,1,3},{b,1,3},{c,1,3}}

Now I want to apply this list as parameters for the Sum function so that I end up with the ...

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Can one preset credentials for ServiceConnect["Twitter", "New"] to allow wolframscript headless use?

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Trying to run some wolframscript code from a server, is it possible to set ServiceConnect credentials in the environmental variables for example?

asked by Tim https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=416 3 votes

Warnings while solving a system of coupled differential equations

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I have a system of differential equations, given by

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1.13 Thursday, February 11, 2021

1.13.1 Top new questions this week

Mathematica cannot seem to properly handle times in the 1 hour before clocks go back

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Using Chicago as an example; According to the current rules for applying daylight saving time, at 02:00:00 on the first Sunday of November, clocks in Chicago go back 1 hour (from Central Daylight Time ...

asked by RobertNathaniel https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=60404 24 votes

answered by Patrick Stevens https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=30771 22 votes

Dataset Association of Association vs Hierarchical data

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I have the following dataset:

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Plot many curves on the same graph

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This plot has 40 curves on the same graph which makes it hard to see. I need to plot them on one graph. So I have an idea to plot to make it easier to see which one is larger or smaller in each range....

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answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 21 votes

Is there any other way to access the n-th element of a BlankSequence?

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Consider a named BlankSequence x__. How can I access the n-th element? 
Is {x}[[n]] the only ...

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Periodic von Neumann neighbours

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From Carl Woll’s answer here, I have this code for pulling the von Neumann neighbors:

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Equivalent of numpy’s newaxis

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Numpy has a newaxis object that allows you to insert a new dimension of length 1 into an array. So after ...

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answered by swish https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2490 8 votes

Plot[Im[f[x]],...] incorrectly gives graph of identical zero function

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Consider

Plot[Im[(1 + (-1)^(2/3)*x)/((-1)^(2/3) + x)], {x, 0, 1}]

At least in Mma 11 it gives the following picture: Meanwhile,

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1.13.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

How to create animated snowfall?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=16881

Well, the title is self-explanatory. What sorts of snowfall can we generate using Mathematica? There are two options I suggest to consider:

1) Continuous GIF animations with smallest possible number ...

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answered by Simon Woods https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=862 54 votes

Calling Correct Function for Plotting DiracDelta

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I am wondering what is the correct function in Mathematica to plot the true impulse function, better known as the DiracDelta[] function. When using this inside of a ...

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answered by Heike https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=46 19 votes

How to manipulate 2D plots?

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When it comes to visual analysis, large datasets or data with intricate internal details often makes plotting in 2D useless, as the outcome is either just a fraction of the full dataset, or no details ...

asked by István Zachar https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=89 137 votes

answered by IstvánZacharhttps://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=89 155 votes

Using Export[] sends the file where?

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I am trying to use the Export command to convert a list of plots into a *.gif file, and the command runs and executes well, but I can’t find the file! Where is it ...

asked by Patrick Da Silva https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1785 37 votes

answered by Vitaliy Kaurov https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13 51 votes

How can I reproduce this mandala with Mathematica?

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I found this image on the Internet and it is very beautiful. How can I reproduce it? The ideal would be to be able to control the colors of the outside as well as the center.

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answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 35 votes

Mathematica Minecraft

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Some time ago I asked myself: with all these great graphics and interactive capabilities of Mathematica, what kinds of 3D games can be implemented in it? And the answer which came to mind is ...

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answered by faleichikhttps://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=219 241 votes

Plotting the frequency spectrum of a data series using Fourier

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testData = Table[N@Sin[500 x], {x, 0, 100}]; 
ListLinePlot[Abs[Fourier[testData]], PlotRange -> Full]

Gives me Which I do not expect because the Fourier ...

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answered by KennyColnago https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3246 16 votes

1.13.3 Can you answer these questions?

Fourier transform in polar coordinates using built-in hankel transform of the function constant 1

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Like in the table of transforms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transform#Distributions,_one-dimensional the FT (Fourier transform) of \(\delta \) is 1 and the FT of 1 is \(\delta \), but in polar ...

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Exponent combinations

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How can I have Mathematica represent the product of two different bases and exponents as a single power (where possible)? For example, see the product below can be expressed below:

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Plot derivative of a real function consisting of a complex function

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I obtained the data for the real and imaginary parts of a complex function \(A(x,t)=A_r(x,t)+i A_i(x,t)\) from NDSolve, both are functions of time \(t\) and space \(x\). ...

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1.14 Thursday, February 4, 2021

1.14.1 Top new questions this week

Confirm vs Throw

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Version 12.2 brought us Confirm and Enclose. What’s the point? Is it just that it’s a slightly more convenient syntax than ...

asked by Patrick Stevens https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=30771 13 votes

How to use wolframscript to develop flexible command-line tools?

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I am currently changing a notebook into a wolframscript for a "production" environment, where I plan to pack the script as a standard CLI tool. However I do not know how to implement such an ...

asked by Gravifer https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=72025 10 votes

Automatic Method for FindMinimum with constraints

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What is the default method used by FindMinimum with constraints? The documentation says:

"Currently, the only method available for constrained optimization is ...

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answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 8 votes

How to refine a boundary mesh with MeshRefinementFunction?w

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MeshRefinementFunction works well to refine elements in a defined spatial domain (here \(x>0\)):

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answered by Tim Laska https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=61809 8 votes

Ugly streaks caused by Arg in a contour plot

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I had a more general question about a similar problem more than two years ago, Getting rid of discontinuities in plots caused by square roots, logarithms, ‘Arg‘, etc, which got lots of interesting ...

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answered by Michael E2 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4999 11 votes

Trying to Rotate the North Pole View of a Globe

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My goal is to generate diagrams like this.

But I would like to be able to rotate the globe about the North Pole, so that I can represent different times of the day. When I use ImageRotate, the ...

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answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 11 votes

problem with DelaunayMesh 3D coordinates

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I found DelaunayMesh works fine for 2D. For example,

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answered by user21 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=18437 7 votes

1.14.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

Conversion of Sine to Cosine

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I’m solving equations with many Cosines and Sines. And I want to convert all the Sines to Cosines using trigonometric formulas such as cos(x)=sin(x+pi/2). How can I do this?

asked by YongCheol Kwon https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=23041 4 votes

answered by Sjoerd C. de Vries https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=57 2 votes

Extract real part of a complex expression better than Re does

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I have a complex expression with real positive variables only.

Mathematica Input Style:

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answered by nixeagle https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=814 53 votes

Assign the results from a Solve to variable(s)

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I understand Mathematica can’t assign the results of a Solve to the unknowns because there may be more than 1 solution. How can I assign the 4 values of following result to variables?

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answered by Artes https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=184 34 votes

Why round to even integers?

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According to the Mathematica help: Round rounds numbers of the form x.5 toward the nearest even integer. For example:

Round[{0.5, 1.5, 2.5, 3.5, 4.5}]

gives

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answered by Per Alexandersson https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=488 51 votes

Using Export[] sends the file where?

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I am trying to use the Export command to convert a list of plots into a *.gif file, and the command runs and executes well, but I can’t find the file! Where is it ...

asked by Patrick Da Silva https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1785 37 votes

answered by Vitaliy Kaurov https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13 51 votes

Formatting legend text font

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I am using this code to plot a graph, and I am trying to make the font of the legend bigger.

asked by Julia https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=525 20 votes

answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 25 votes

What do the X and Y axis stand for in the Fourier transform domain?

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In Wolfram Mathematica the function Fourier has the following declaration

Fourier[list]

And after a list is given to the ...

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answered by Hugh https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=12558 61 votes

1.14.3 Can you answer these questions?

RegionPlot of the Maximum of a function

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For the function fun[a_, b_, x_, y_] = Sin[a x] Cos[b y] (a x + b y); corresponding to \(x\) and \(y\), I need a RegionPlot showing the maximum of function \(fun[a, b, x]\)

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answered by Bob Hanlon https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9362 0 votes

How to let Mathematica evaluate a large amount of data

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I have the following code in mathematica which runs perfectly for a small matrix of 21 x 12 matrix. But I really want to test it for a large system. My data is 35844 x 21000 elements, totaling 1.5 GB. ...

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Directed Infinity vs Indeterminant in this output

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When I evaluate

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1.15 Thursday, January 28, 2021

1.15.1 Top new questions this week

What’s the difference between these 2 associations?

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I have 2 associations similar to these simplified ones:

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answered by Leonid Shifrin https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=81 16 votes

How can I handle graphics or artworks with millions of points?

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As a hobby, I am trying to use Mathematica and Wolfram Language as a tool for making generative artworks. Generative art techniques may require drawing millions of points, lines, or curves. For ...

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answered by George Varnavides https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=41179 21 votes

ContourPlot3D, grid of cylinders

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I am trying to make a 3D contour plot that looks like a grid of cylinders to represent the Fermi surface of a metal, like below:

I have no problem generating something that kind of looks like it.

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answered by cvgmt https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=72111 13 votes

Distorting image to ensure consistent vanishing point

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Here’s Giorgio de Chirico’s painting, Ariadne:

The Surrealist artist deliberately broke the rules of geometric perspective, giving the work his characteristic sense of mystery and unease. What would ...

asked by David G. Stork https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9735 10 votes

answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 2 votes

Export infinite looping GIFs by default

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frames=Table[Plot[Sin[x(1+a x)],{x,0,6}],{a,0,2,0.2}]; 
Export["test.gif",frames]

The above code runs in version 9.0 to get a infinite looping GIF ...

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answered by Kuba https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5478 7 votes

Replace a color in image with hatchfilling

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Is it possible to identify a color (say grey in a 3 color Black, Gray and White image) and ...

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answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 10 votes

MeshRefinementFunction on 2D surfaces embedded in 3D

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DiscretizeRegion doesn’t seem to run the supplied MeshRefinementFunction when meshing a 2D surface in 3D. For example:

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1.15.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

How do I identify the source of a "Tag times protected" error?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=11982

I have some code that looks like

Table[ 
    a = 1; 
    b = {2, 3} 
    c = i;, 
    {i, 2} 
] 
 
which gives an error: 
  Set::write: Tag Times in c {2,3} is Protected....

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Labeling individual curves in Mathematica

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I need to create a plot for export and inclusion in a report. Is there a better way to label curves than PlotLegends? From what I’ve read and my personal experience,...

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answered by Artes https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=184 47 votes

How to add a vertical line to a plot

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In the plot below I would like to add two vertical lines at \(x = \frac {\pi }{15} \pm \frac {1}{20}\). How can I do that?

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answered by Ajasja https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=745 82 votes

Drawing a square root spiral

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Here is a start. I’m looking for a nice way to draw it.

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answered by Bob Hanlon https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9362 21 votes

Multivariable Taylor expansion does not work as expected

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The basic multivariable Taylor expansion formula around a point is as follows:

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answered by Jens https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=245 71 votes

Solving \(L=\frac {3}{2} \sqrt {4 \pi ^2 A^2+W^2}-\frac {\sqrt {5 W \sqrt {4 \pi ^2 A^2+W^2}+6 \pi ^2 A^2+3 W^2}}{\sqrt {2}}+\frac {3 W}{2}\) for \(W\)

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When I solve the aforementioned equation for \(W\) or \(A\) on Mathematica I get a long and ugly equation in return, namely one of the solutions for \(W\) is: (attempt to read at your own health)

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answered by Alexei Boulbitch https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=788 15 votes

Mathematica command that allows it to read my intentions

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In version 2.0 of Mathematica there was a command, ReadProgrammerIntentions[ ] which allowed it rapidly compose code that could solve problems simple to complex, ...

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1.15.3 Can you answer these questions?

How to improve this code?

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The aim of my work is to find a value for the complex constant \(\omega \). In order to do that I solve the below system of differential equations with a manual shooting method: I first solve the system ...

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Error on DSolve

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I’ve been trying to solve this initial value problem using DSolve[]: \[ \frac {dy}{dt}=1+t\space \sin (t\space y),\quad y(0)=0, \quad t=[0,2] \]

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Remove defect of display in ListDensityPlot3D

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I have a 3D volumetric data (for example, \(64\times 64\times 64\), at each point there is a value) read in from a file and I want to use ListDensityPlot3D to ...

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1.16 Thursday, January 21, 2021

1.16.1 Top new questions this week

How can I use Mathematica to solve a complex truth-teller/liar logic problem?

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I have a logic puzzle I want to convert to Mathematica to solve: Person A states, "Exactly two people are truth-tellers," Person B states, "I and Person C are truth-tellers."

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answered by SneezeFor16Min https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=69875 19 votes

list-array construction

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I want to create the list ix={1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,4,4,4,4} I can do

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why do these two Meijer G functions not cancel each other?

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I encountered such expressions in Mathematica MeijerG[{{ }, {1, c + 1/2}}, {{0, c, c, c}, { }}, 1] + MeijerG[{{1}, {c + 1/2}},    {{c, c, c},    {0}}, 1]

which in ...

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answered by Chromo Runge https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=68326 12 votes

How to partition a square into successive halves

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I am teaching the idea of infinite geometric series to high school students, looking for hints to create the diagram below using Mathematica. (I don’t need the labels). I can do it manually, but ...

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answered by J. M.’s ennui https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=50 9 votes

Ignoring fractions can lead to correct answer

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There is a curious example in Posamentier’s book "Magnificent Mistakes in Mathematics" (p. 72): \((7+3/7)*(4-3/13)= 7*4=28\), where cancelling the fractions leads to correct result. If we ...

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answered by Bob Hanlon https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9362 9 votes

Context Manipulation within Scoping Constructs

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In the following the full context form of Test is not required as "Aaa`" is added to ...

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Why does NMinimize not follow MaxIterations?

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...

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1.16.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

Is it possible to export the equations from Mathematica to MATLAB?

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Is it possible to export the output expressions from Mathematica computations (e.g., equations) in valid MATLAB syntax?

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answered by rm -rf https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5 48 votes

How to ask Mathematica to imitate Andy Warhol’s pop-art painting?

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I tried to ask Mathematica to imitate Andy Warhol, let it convert a Marilyn Monroe’s portrait so that it looks like Warhol’s world famous pop-art painting. However, the result shown below is far from ...

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How to plot an ellipse?

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I’m new to Mathematica, and I’m finding it difficult to plot an ellipse. I tried using

Plot[(x/5)^2 + (y/3)^2 == 1, {x, -5, 5}, {y, -3, 3}]

but I’m getting ...

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answered by Jens https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=245 30 votes

What’s the most difficult multidimensional integral that Mathematica has solved?

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I am interested in benchmarking numerical integration methods and am trying to develop a wider set of difficult multivariate examples. For my particular methods, I only want to look at non-negative-...

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Even Fibonacci numbers

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Today, I found the Euler Project. Problem #2 is

Each new term in the Fibonacci sequence is generated by adding the previous two terms. By starting with 1 and 2, the first 10 terms will be:

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Find eigen energies of time-independent Schrödinger equation

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I’m trying to get the eigenvalues of a one dimensional time-independent Schrödinger equation,

\(-\frac {h^2}{2m_0}\frac {d^2\psi }{dx^2}+U(x)~\psi =Ei~\psi \)

where U(x) is some potential and Ei is the ...

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answered by Jens https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=245 46 votes

Standard deck of 52 playing cards in curated data?

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I am not sure how to find out what all is included as curated data. For example, are the individual images of each of the 52 cards in a standard deck of playing cards included?

If not, is there a way ...

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1.16.3 Can you answer these questions?

ListDensityPlot3D with x-axis in logscale

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Starting from a data set like the one used in this post: Importing and visualizing 4D data DATA It can be viewed using ListDensityPlot3D, as follows:

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Trying to solve a PDE getting warnings I don’t understand

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Consider the partial differential equation

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How can we improve transonic flow visualization?

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With this code we can make 2D FEM simulation of transonic flow around airfoil NACA 0012 at Mach number of 0.925. It takes about 5 minutes on the XENIA-15 laptop of 32 GB memory with processor Intel ...

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1.17 Thursday, January 14, 2021

1.17.1 Top new questions this week

Faster "Closest Pair of Points Problem" implementation?

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The closest pair of points problem is a common computational geometry problem: given n points, find a pair of points with the smallest distance between them. A naive algorithm of finding distances ...

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answered by Carl Woll https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=45431 11 votes

Broken ValueQ function in Mma12.2?

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f[x] ^= 1; 
ValueQ[g[x]]

returns True in Mathematica 12.2. Is it a bug?

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answered by MarcoB https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=27951 17 votes

Graphics not correctly produced when saving to PDF in Version 12

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12.0.0 for Microsoft Windows (64-bit) (April 6, 2019) How do I get my graphic to look the same in PDF as it does in a Notebook? This is what the graphic looks like in the FrontEnd:

This is how the ...

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answered by MelaGo https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=63360 13 votes

MoleculePlot draws sucrose benzoate with overlapping bonds

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Recently I learned that in Mathematica it is possible to create chemical structures here: Chemical formulas with Mathematica I am having a problem with a structure called "Sucrose benzoate"

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answered by Jason B. https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9490 9 votes

How to globally disable and re-enable Echo?

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I have Echo’s buried in code all over my notebook, I’d like a flag to turn them all on or off globally.

Sure Unprotect[Echo];Echo=Identity would disable them, but ...

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answered by Carl Woll https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=45431 9 votes

Compile - Optimization of function calls - does it matter?

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I was surprised to see that, in the results of CompilePrint for a function made with Compile, calls to ...

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answered by Sean https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=76328 2 votes

neighbouring pixels : next smaller and bigger perimeter

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I have a list of pixels centers, for example :

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answered by C. E. https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=731 7 votes

1.17.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

How to make Jacobian automatically in Mathematica

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If we have two vectors, \(a\) and \(b\), how can I make Jacobian matrix automatically in Mathematica?

$$ a=\left( 
\begin{array}{c} 
 x_1^3+2x_2^2 \\ 
 3x_1^4+7x_2 
\end{array} 
\right);b=\left( 
\begin{array}{...

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answered by Jens https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=245 52 votes

Plotting Complex Quantity Functions

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Trying to plot with complex quantities seems not to work properly in what I want to accomplish. I would like to know if there is a general rule/way of plotting when you have complex counterparts in ...

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answered by Artes https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=184 29 votes

QR Code in shopping cart handle

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This week, the market people from my work wanted to put QR codes in shopping cart handles, but when they tested it, the QR code did not work. I noted that the cylindrical curvature (even small) ...

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answered by halirutan https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=187 192 votes

How do I plot a plane EM wave?

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I would like to display an electromagnetic (EM) wave. I have written code that works, but it does not "shade" the area between the graph and the axes. Both the ...

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answered by J. M.’s ennui https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=50 16 votes

Standard deck of 52 playing cards in curated data?

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I am not sure how to find out what all is included as curated data. For example, are the individual images of each of the 52 cards in a standard deck of playing cards included?

If not, is there a way ...

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answered by rm -rf https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5 23 votes

Why I get the "Set::write: "Tag Times in is Protected." error?

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Why I get the error below with this code:

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answered by Mark McClure https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=36 13 votes

Mathematica vs. Python - how does Mathematica compare to Python’s scientific computing suite?

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Python’s family of packages for scientific computing has matured rapidly. I can pretty much replicate all of Mathematica’s functionalities, but with production level and open-source code using the ...

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answered by Jens https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=245 36 votes

1.17.3 Can you answer these questions?

NDSolve - interpolation or machine precision problem

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For the following equations;

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Matrix regularization, how to pick \(\lambda \)

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Since v12 FindFit[] now supports regularisation, such as Tikhonov regularization. Do there exist statistics to help guide the choice of the hyper-parameter

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Memory consuming Expand

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Expand floods all my 64GB RAM in MMA 12.1 (Windows). Therefore I cannot run the code. Somebody with >64GB RAM could give the result. A memory saving alternative ...

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1.18 Thursday, January 7, 2021

1.18.1 Top new questions this week

Why MMA refuses to simplify the following simple expression?

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I have the following simple expression Exp[(Log[1 + x]^2 - Log[x]^2)/Log[1 + 1/x]] - x^2

that can be shown to simplify to \(x\)

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answered by yarchik https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9469 5 votes

Simplifying code that displays a square rolling inside a circle

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The vertex A,B of the square ABCD with side length \(\sqrt {2}\) is on the circle with radius \(\sqrt {2}\), vertex C,D is inside the circle, roll the square ABCD along the inside of the circle ...

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answered by David G. Stork https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9735 0 votes

Trying to build a code to translate handwritten formulas using ML

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I’m lazy writing equations in Latex so I want a code to translate handwritten equations. This question is related to an old experiment I’m reviewing during vacations, here. I’m trying to use ...

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How to define a function reminding of names of the independent variables?

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I am using a function with a lot of variables. There are 9 and sometimes more of them. In this case, it is difficult to memorize, which one stays on the, say, fourth position, and which one - on the ...

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answered by CA Trevillian https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=63039 2 votes

Improve running speed for DeleteDuplicates

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How to make this faster? I want to remove elements that satisfy the condition below but it’s way too slow.

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answered by WReach https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=142 10 votes

Why does Mathematica try to take the first element of the empty list when plotting?

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I’m using Mathematica 12.1.1.0. When I enter

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answered by Bob Hanlon https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9362 3 votes

Why do the frame ticks disapear when a plot is exported as PNG?

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I am using M12.0.0.0 on Ubuntu and I have these two plots:

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answered by Rolf Mertig https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=29 5 votes

1.18.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks:

What do the X and Y axis stand for in the Fourier transform domain?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=85139

In Wolfram Mathematica the function Fourierhas the following declaration

Fourier[list]

And after a list is given to the ...

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answered by Hugh https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=12558 61 votes

How can I plot the direction field for a differential equation?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=8841

I’d like to plot the graph of the direction field for a differential equation, to get a feel for it. I’m a novice, right now, when it comes to plotting in Mathematica, so I’m hoping that someone can ...

asked by Matt Groff https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1735 31 votes

answered by Peter Breitfeld https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=307 25 votes

Is Mathematica worth it for me?

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I’m 13 years old and in 7th grade. I’m currently in Algebra 1, and I have fallen in love with both math and programming.

When I came upon Mathematica, it was awesome. My two favorite things fused ...

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answered by Pillsy https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=531 55 votes

How to ask Mathematica to imitate Andy Warhol’s pop-art painting?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=59132

I tried to ask Mathematica to imitate Andy Warhol, let it convert a Marilyn Monroe’s portrait so that it looks like Warhol’s world famous pop-art painting. However, the result shown below is far from ...

asked by Putterboy https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=16069 52 votes

answered by Dr. belisarius https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=193 67 votes

Figuring when the minute and hour hand coincide on a clock

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I would like to list all possible times in a 12-hour period, where the hour hand overlaps the minute hand completely. This is really a question about three distinct things - to be done in Mathematica ...

asked by Steve D https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=191 15 votes

answered by Verbeia https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=8 21 votes

Conversion of Sine to Cosine

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=67521

I’m solving equations with many Cosines and Sines. And I want to convert all the Sines to Cosines using trigonometric formulas such as cos(x)=sin(x+pi/2). How can I do this?

asked by YongCheol Kwon https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=23041 4 votes

answered by Sjoerd C. de Vries https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=57 2 votes

Finding unit tangent, normal, and binormal vectors for a given r(t)

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For my Calc III class, I need to find \(T(t), N(t)\), and \(B(t)\) for \(t=1, 2\), and \(-1\), given \(r(t)=\{t,t^2,t^3\}\).

I’ve got Mathematica, but I’ve never used it before and I’m not sure how to coerce ...

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answered by Artes https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=184 44 votes

1.18.3 Can you answer these questions?

Numerically obtaining inverse 2D Laplace transform

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=237480

I wonder if there is a function in Mathematica (or code) that can help obtaining inverse 2D Laplace transform of a function, f(s1,s2) which is the 2D Laplace transform of a function F(t1,t2) in (s1,s2)...

asked by Refaat Galal https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=76583 1 vote

How to determine population from a list of arbitrary jurisdictions (cities, states, counties, et al.)?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=237541

I am an aspiring data scientist who’s working on a passion project, namely to assign danger-level scores to police departments in the United States. One specific metric I’m developing results from ...

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answered by George Varnavides https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=41179 0 votes

Computing correspondences between two images

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A classic problem in computer vision is computing correspondences between keypoints in two similar images, despite modest variations in size, lightness, orientation, etc., of the images, as ...

asked by David G. Stork https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9735 6 votes

Chapter 2
Year 2020

2.1 Thursday, December 24, 2020

2.1.1 Top new questions this week

These PDE’s no longer evaluate in version 12.2 as they did under 12.1. What can be done to make them evaluate under 12.2?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=236895

These 399 PDE’s no longer produce result under Version 12.2 on windows. DSolve now returns unevaluated. These all evaluated under version 12.1. Why is that? And ...

asked by Nasser https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=70 17 votes

answered by Devendra Kapadia https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=18617 12 votes

Travelling around Jupiter

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=236843

Since we have soon historical conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn I have prepared code with visualization planet Jupiter and Saturn with moons. This code first been prepared for version 11.3 and with ...

asked by Alex Trounev https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=58388 16 votes

Numerically evaluating parameter derivatives of a hypergeometric function

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=237032

I am unable to obtain the numerical value of the derivative of the hypergeometric function. Please note that the (2,4,0,0) is the derivative with respect to the first and second argument

asked by Sachin Kaushik https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=58727 7 votes

answered by Mariusz Iwaniuk https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=26828 7 votes

Numeric Solution Hydrogen Atom

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I’m trying to solve the Schrödinger equation for the hydrogen atom without made the variable separation of the polar and radial coordinate. It is my test code to extrapolate to another system with its ...

asked by Jorge Castaño https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=73029 7 votes

answered by Jorge Castaño https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=73029 0 votes

Sum cause a Recursion problem

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Sum[((-1)^(i + 1)*Binomial[n, i]*(n - i)!)/n!, {i, 1, n}]

This cause a Recursion problem.

As the comment said, If simplify the formula and then sum it, problem ...

asked by wuyudi https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=68689 6 votes

Is it possible to ask Mathematica to give the maximum value of a function over a specific domain?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=236971

I have a function \(f(n)\) over \(n\in \mathbb {N}\). I want to know its maximum value over a very large domain, say \(n=1,2,3,4,...,10^6\). Is there a way to ask Mathematica to give me the maximum value of ...

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answered by MarcoB https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=27951 9 votes

Unrolling a surface

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=237045

The surface is determined by this parametric equation ParametricPlot3D[{Cos[],Sin[],z(2+ Cos[])},{,-Pi,Pi},{z,0,1}]

How to unfold the surface in Mathematica? ...

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answered by Tim Laska https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=61809 3 votes

2.1.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

Conversion of Sine to Cosine

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=67521

I’m solving equations with many Cosines and Sines. And I want to convert all the Sines to Cosines using trigonometric formulas such as cos(x)=sin(x+pi/2). How can I do this?

asked by YongCheol Kwon https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=23041 3 votes

answered by Sjoerd C. de Vries https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=57 1 vote

How to ask Mathematica to imitate Andy Warhol’s pop-art painting?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=59132

I tried to ask Mathematica to imitate Andy Warhol, let it convert a Marilyn Monroe’s portrait so that it looks like Warhol’s world famous pop-art painting. However, the result shown below is far from ...

asked by Putterboy https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=16069 51 votes

answered by Dr. belisarius https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=193 66 votes

Plot, extract data to a file

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I need to save data that Mathematica uses inside the Plot command. The format that I would like to have is:

x1 y1 
x2 y2 
.....

asked by molkee https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5097 30 votes

answered by Mr.Wizard https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=121 46 votes

My Girlfriend is going to prison...Save her with Math

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=135937

Salacious title, but true story.

asked by Prisoners Dilema https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=46025 42 votes

answered by bobthechemist https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=7167 23 votes

How to create animated snowfall?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=16881

Well, the title is self-explanatory. What sorts of snowfall can we generate using Mathematica? There are two options I suggest to consider:

1) Continuous GIF animations with smallest possible number ...

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Parallel and perpendicular symbol from Mathematica to LaTeX

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=46538

I want to get the following expression from Mathematica to LaTeX:

\[ \begin {bmatrix} E_{\parallel } \\ E_{\perp } \end {bmatrix} \]

I have tried to use inbuilt 'symbol' character from the special ...

asked by Steve Hatcher https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13314 19 votes

answered by Sjoerd C. de Vries https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=57 27 votes

1 Plot, 2 Scale/Axis

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=627

I would like to plot those two datasets on top of each other. But they have very different range on the \(y\) axis. How can I have two different axis?

I found the following on the help menu but quite ...

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answered by ArgentoSapiens https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=92 151 votes

2.1.3 Can you answer these questions?

How to determine if a number is an integer power?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=236779

How can I do simple tests like determining if an integer is a power of 2? Mathematically, the result below should be True, and I understand why it doesn’t work on MMa, but how do I do this test ...

asked by Jerry Guern https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=20042 1 vote

dot product of vectors with noncommutative elements

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=237042

I came upon an interesting problem. Suppose you have three vectors \(\psi =(a, b)\), \(\phi =(c,d)\) such that their components do not commute: \(ac\neq ca\), \(bd \neq db\) etc. (in general the vectors may ...

asked by geom https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=68502 1 vote

How to Inherit Arrowheds size?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=236932

I’m trying to write a Module that produces some arrows with custom Arrowhead shapes. However, I want the code external to the

asked by Wynne https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=36616 1 vote

2.2 Thursday, December 17, 2020

2.2.1 Top new questions this week

Plotting the Star of Bethlehem

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=236499

Christmas is around the corner! In preparation, consider the polynomial f[x_,y_]:= 1/10 (4 - x^2 - 2 y^2)^2 + 1/2 (x^2 + y^2) 

and define \(r=(f_x,f_y)\) using the ...

asked by fwgb https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=44151 19 votes

answered by xzczd https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1871 15 votes

Opacity gradient in custom legend

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=236442

I need to produce the legend of a plot which encodes a color gradient together with a color gradient. In particular, I would like the image bellow to have the blueish edge faded and the redish solid:

asked by Marcelo Broinizi https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=53497 6 votes

answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 7 votes

Circle Packing in Cone Texture

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=236449

This is a cone with texture generated by PatternFilling in plane. The problem this texture mapping is not conformal. So my question is how to generated a pattern image which could suit a fixed height ...

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answered by cvgmt https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=72111 3 votes

Is there a Mathematica CUDA ode solver?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=236625

I have a system of ODEs which I’d like to solve with many (thousands) different initial conditions. In the net there are articles that CUDA can speed up such computations, but I haven’t found ...

asked by Andrew https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=306 5 votes

How to properly use the function ThermodynamicData

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=236558

I’ve been trying to use the function ThermodynamicData, and it is going fine when I try to calculate properties such as Enthalpy or Entropy or even phase as a ...

asked by Igor Stravinsky https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=35043 5 votes

answered by Michael E2 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4999 2 votes

How do I reorder and combine sublists based on sublist rankings given by another list?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=236526

I have two lists:

asked by Gregorio https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=75996 5 votes

answered by wuyudi https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=68689 2 votes

How to convert cuboid to mesh efficiently

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cuboids = 
Table[Cuboid @@ (pts = RandomReal[100, {2, 3}]), {i, 10000}]; 
 
Method1:

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answered by chyanog https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2090 6 votes

2.2.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

Mathematica code for Bifurcation Diagram

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=13277

At the moment I am trying to construct a bifurcation diagram of the iterative function \(f(x)=\) \(ax-1.1975x^3\). I’ve scoured the internet for pre-made bifurcation diagrams and found many (mostly of the ...

asked by Mel https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=3249 27 votes

answered by Mark McClure https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=36 47 votes

What are the most common pitfalls awaiting new users?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=18393

As you may already know, Mathematica is a wonderful piece of software. However, it has a few characteristics that tend to confuse new (and sometimes not-so-new) users. That can be clearly seen from ...

asked by Dr. belisarius https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=193 473 votes answered by Michael E2 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4999 285 votes

Calculate the 2D Fourier transform of an Image

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=29203

I am new to Mathematica, and using version 8.0.

I would like to calculate the 2D Fourier Transform of an Image with Mathematica and plot the magnitude and phase ...

asked by user8727 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=8727 17 votes

answered by Nasser https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=70 33 votes

How to make the digits of go around in a spiral like this?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=109982

Here is a start.

MapIndexed[Text[Reverse[First[RealDigits[Pi,10,252]]][[Tr@#2]],#]&, 
 Table[{t Cos[t],t Sin[t]},{t,0,16Pi,0.2}]]//Graphics

asked by matrix89 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5379 57 votes

answered by Martin Ender https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2305 73 votes

How to make a Spherical Cow?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=125043

Being a theoretical physicist, I always have a great respect for Spherical Cow. So I thought about making one myself. I am not sure how can I create (something considered to be the simplest!) this ...

asked by Sumit https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=8070 69 votes

answered by andre314 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5467 76 votes

How can I plot a graph of an integral?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=78451

I want to plot the following function:

\[\int \left (\frac {\Gamma (x+1)}{2}-\frac {\Gamma (x-1)}{2}\right ) \, dx\]

asked by Anixx https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=651 4 votes

answered by k_v https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=24727 9 votes

How to tell Mathematica that certain variables are real/imaginary, integer-valued, etc

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=66273 I’m trying to expedite some quantum mechanical calculations (expectation values etc.) by running them through Mathematica. When I say, for example,

asked by Matthew Brunetti https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=22304 39 votes

answered by SquareOne https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=19960 24 votes

2.2.3 Can you answer these questions?

Interpolation for different Parameters

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=236606

I am rather new to Mathematica and I tried to find a solution for my Problem on my own, also looking through this site and the suggested Similar Questions, but I at least could not make out that my ...

asked by n00bBoi1 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=76302 1 vote

Problem in iterative equation

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I am solving the following iterative equation to calculate Tf and Cp as a function of temperature:

An initial attempt for a ...

asked by John https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=72940 2 votes

Importing equations generated in subpackage to be solved in another subpackage

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=236345

I have a package which contains two subpackages: one ("`MOTSimulator`MOTGenerator") which generates a systems of differential equations of the form

asked by crich https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=76216 1 vote

2.3 Thursday, December 10, 2020

2.3.1 Top new questions this week

Find the equidistance curve between two curves

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=235971

I have three function \(f(x)=x^x\), \(g(x)=\ln (x)^{\ln (x)}\), \(h(x)=\ln (x)^2\) and I want to find (numerically) \(C\) the center of the circle tangent to the three curves.

I think that one way is to find ...

asked by Domenico Modica https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=76121 14 votes

answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 14 votes

Confused by results of FunctionDomain

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=236138

Why does Mathematica give me the function domain of \[f(x)=(2x-3)^{\frac {1}{5}}-(2x+1)^{\frac {1}{5}}-(x - 3)^{\frac {1}{5}}\] as \(x\geq 3\)? I used this command:

asked by Ramez Hindi https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=76160 7 votes

answered by Roderic https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=76085 8 votes

Cannot reproduce well-known summation result

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=236149

Bug introduced in 4.2 or 5.0, persisting through 12.2.0.

Note: this is a repost of my OP on math.SE. I am posting it here because multiple users with different Mathematica versions have given me the ...

asked by Klangen https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=49819 7 votes

answered by Bob Hanlon https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9362 3 votes

Is there a way to get tooltip for parts of a string?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=235911

Is there a way to get the tooltip to appear for parts of a string?

asked by user13892 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13892 7 votes

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Nice use case for symbolic tensors?

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I come from before the times of symbolic tensors in Mathematica, and am used to working with concrete tensors and custom commands to contract them using Transpose, Dot, etc. I recently realized that ...

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Drawing hollow disks in 3D with an sphere in center and small spheres on the rings

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I was trying to draw the following logo of an atom using Mathematica, but I could only figure out how to draw intersecting ellipses, not a nice logo like below. Do you have any idea? And is ...

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answered by Michael E2 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4999 7 votes

Solve‘DirInf[] Meaningful value or just a bug?

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Bug introduced in 4.1 or earlier and persisting through 12.2.0. or later

To the problem below, I get four independent, incomplete solutions, three in terms of ...

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2.3.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

Why is raytracing so slow?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=219629

I’m trying to get some rays to bounce in a circle. But I want to be able to control the reflections, i.e. the direction the rays bounce in the circle. I have a MWE below, and it is severely limited by ...

asked by Tomi https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=36939 31 votes

answered by Tim Laska https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=61809 42 votes

Generate a Unit Circle Trigonometry

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=2456

Struggling often with Trigonometry I would like to have some code to generate this Unit Circle Trigonometry. Would be of great help when I need to transform some data :

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answered by Mark McClure https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=36 32 votes

Drawing a square root spiral

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=66969

Here is a start. I’m looking for a nice way to draw it.

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answered by Bob Hanlon https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9362 21 votes

How do I make a 3DPlot using cylindrical coordinates?

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I’m trying to plot a function of the form \(z(r,\theta )\) where \(r \in [0, R]\) for a finite R, \(\theta \in [0,2\pi [\), and z is the third coordinate, a function of the first two. I couldn’t find anything ...

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answered by whuber https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=91 24 votes

How to calculate contour integrals with Mathematica?

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How to calculate the integral of \(\frac {1}{\sqrt {4 z^2 + 4 z + 3}}\) over the unit circle counterclockwise for each branch of the integrand?

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Skip header lines on import

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When importing a data file what are the comment symbols for Mathematica? That is, given a file like this

blabla 
bulbul 
 
1 2 6 54 7 ...

what symbol do I have ...

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Using Export[] sends the file where?

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I am trying to use the Export command to convert a list of plots into a *.gif file, and the command runs and executes well, but I can’t find the file! Where is it ...

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Can you answer these questions

Periodical sum of rows by a certain step

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=236085

I’ve been struggling with one problem. I have a classic matrix in this example 12x4 such as: matrix = Table[i, {i, 12}, {4}]

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answered by Carl Woll https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=45431 0 votes

Behavior of $MinPrecision seems to have changed between 12.0.0 and 12.1.1

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I am running into a very weird bug where setting $MinPrecisionto some value (in this case 200 has a very different and ...

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HankelTransform problem

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Somewhere in the following code there is a bug. The result should not be zero! FunctionExpand@HankelTransform[Sqrt[r] Cos[r], r, k, 1/2]

I think the answer should ...

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2.4 Thursday, December 3, 2020

2.4.1 Top new questions this week

Interpolation on an unstructured mesh

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=235681

This may have a duplicate but I have spent some time looking and can’t find it. I have experimental data in the form of { {x1, y1, z1}, {x2, y2, z2}...} I wish to interpolate it so my thoughts turned ...

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answered by user21 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=18437 8 votes

Tower of Pisa function

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=235495

I’m trying to construct a ’smooth’ function \(f : \mathbb {R}^2 \longrightarrow [0,1]\) such that all level sets \[\{ x | f(x)=y\}\] are circles in a way that \(f\) looks like the ’Leaning Tower of Pisa’.

asked by darksun https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=75863 10 votes

answered by fwgb https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=44151 7 votes

How can I ingest and analyze benchmark results posted at MSE?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=235390

How can I ingest Mathematica / WL benchmark results posted at Mathematica Stack Exchange (MSE), like the ones posted here? Assumptions:

There are multiple answers with benchmarks posted

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answered by Anton Antonov https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=34008 12 votes

Construct a polyhedron from the coordinates of its vertices and calculate the area of each face

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=235524

I have the 3D coordinates for a set of points. I want to construct the convex polyhedron with those points as vertices.

I know I can use functions like DelaunayMesh

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answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 7 votes

Make an InterpolatingFunction periodic

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Interpolation can make an InterpolatingFunction periodic with the option ...

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answered by Michael E2 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4999 3 votes

How do I place the Clock arrows inside this clock face?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=235711

I am trying to program a clock, I have the face I want and the hands but I can not seem to put them together so they work.....

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answered by Anton Antonov https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=34008 6 votes

How can I sketch a right-angled triangle?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=235413

I would like to replicate this ellipse, but with a right-angled triangle (with smooth/rounded corners). The formula for this ellipse:

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answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 7 votes

2.4.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

Elegant operations on matrix rows and columns

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=3069

Question

The Mathematica tutorial has a section ’Basic Matrix Operations’, describing operations like transpose, inverse and determinant. These operations all work on entire matrices. I am missing a ...

asked by sjdh https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=515 180 votes

answered by Mr.Wizard https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=121 61 votes

Positioning axes labels

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=87388

I need to change the position of my axes labels such that the y-axis label is in the middle and parallel to the y-axis. I’d also like the x-axis label to be in the middle of the x-axis rather than ...

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answered by Virgil https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=27697 16 votes

How to create word clouds?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=2334

Word clouds are rather useless fancy and visually appealing plots, where words are plotted with different sizes according to their frequency in a corpus. Many applications exist out there (Wordle, ...

asked by István Zachar https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=89 145 votes

answered by Heike https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=46 119 votes

How do I clear all user defined symbols?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=850

Is there some way to do this other than going to Evaluation -> Quit kernel and firing a new one up?

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answered by Artes https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=184 95 votes

What does # mean in Mathematica?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=19035

I asked Mathematica to compute the following

Solve[c (1-x)^2-x^(1/4) == 0, x]

and it returned this:

  x = Root[#1^8 c^4 - 8 #1^7 c^4 + 28 #1^6 c^4 - 56 #1^5 c^4 

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answered by Dr. belisarius https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=193 64 votes

How to manipulate 2D plots?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=7142

When it comes to visual analysis, large datasets or data with intricate internal details often makes plotting in 2D useless, as the outcome is either just a fraction of the full dataset, or no details ...

asked by István Zachar https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=89 134 votes

answered by István Zachar https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=89 154 votes

How to make an inkblot?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=3345

How to effectively create a polygon that looks like a realistic inkblot? So far, I could come up with this (borrowing from Ed Pegg Jr.’s Rorschach demonstration):

asked by István Zachar https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=89 86 votes

answered by Sjoerd C. de Vries https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=57 51 votes

2.4.3 Can you answer these questions?

What is the fastest way to get the lowest eigenvalue and corresponding eigenstate in Mathematica?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=235678

I tried to use the Arnoldi method to get the smallest eigenvalue and corresponding eigenstate for large matrix. However, Arnoldi did not give me the desired result:

asked by lol https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=40838 2 votes

How do I get built-in functions to use custom objects as if they were e.g. List?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=235391

(This is part 2 of my earlier question, Can I overload Part for specific heads (a la overloaded array subscripting)?, which was well-answered as asked.)

Overview: My goal is to create a custom object -...

asked by Josh Helzer https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=75893 3 votes

How to speed up this code (finding eigenvector with smallest eigenvalue)?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=235775

I have following code. The function TraceSystem is to take partial trace of matrix and I think this part is fine. The main code is below in dd and I think the main problem is in here for Eigenvector. ...

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2.5 Thursday, November 19, 2020

2.5.1 Top new questions this week

3D Inclusion with structured mesh and coarse and arbitrary matrix

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=234780

I am wondering if there is a simple way to define a structured 3D mesh (inclusion) like e.g. that and surround it with a corse and unstructured Matrix. It should be possible to refine both more or ...

asked by Max https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=68812 15 votes

answered by Tim Laska https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=61809 8 votes

Smoother jelly / water effect on an image

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=234653

I’m trying to achieve a jelly / water surface effect. I’d like it to be a bit smoother. Here I am taking a triangulated rectangle and perturbing all points by a little random noise for each frame. ...

asked by flinty https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=72682 14 votes

answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 15 votes

Can Mathematica be used to edit MP3 tags?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=234564

Can Mathematica edit mp3 tags? I have a set of files and I’d like to batch process artist, album title, etc. I know other tools exist; I wonder if Mathematica can do it.

asked by GregH https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4393 11 votes

answered by flinty https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=72682 15 votes

How can I put the edge of a rectangle inside it rather than outside it?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=234866

Problem: when I draw a rectangle and put a coloured edge around it, the displayed edge is centred along the nominal edge and if it follows the same course as one of the axes then it does not show up. ...

asked by ruffle https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=59886 7 votes

answered by Brett Champion https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=69 5 votes

How do I invert my matrix?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=234836

I have the following matrix \(M\):

\begin{bmatrix} 
P & p & 0 & 0 \\ 
pe_1 & Pe_1 & \sqrt{P^2 - p^2}q_1 & \sqrt{P^2 - p^2}r_1 \\ 
pe_2 & Pe_2 & \sqrt{P^2 - p^2}q_2 & 
\end{bmatrix}

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answered by LouisB https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=22158 14 votes

How to convert a Dataset into an indexed dataset / association-of-associations given a column header?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=234931

Given a dataset as such

If "letter" is the header that is chosen, how do I convert it into an indexed dataset / association-of-associations? i.e. How do ...

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answered by Anton Antonov https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=34008 6 votes

Automatically draw chords from n-1 points on a circle to a fixed point on the circle

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I want to put n equally spaced points on a circle and automatically draw chords from all points to a fixed point preferably P(0,0). I have managed to draw the points and the circle so far with

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answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 5 votes

2.5.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

How to find the position of elements in a list satisfying criteria

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=180

Say I have a list x={2,4,6,8,10} and I want to find out the positions of the elements that are greater than 7.

asked by PeterR https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=140 67 votes

answered by J. M.’s discontentment https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=50 63 votes

Finding Limits in several variables

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=21544

Is there a way to find a limit of a multivariable function, like

\[\lim _{(x,y)\to (0,0)} f(x,y)\] with Mathematica?

When \(f\) is continuous, we can use \[\lim _{(x,y)\to (0,0)} f(x,y)=\lim _{(x,0)}\]

asked by Dominic Michaelis https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5899 31 votes

answered by whuber https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=91 42 votes

Why round to even integers?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=2116

According to the Mathematica help:

Round rounds numbers of the form x.5 toward the nearest even integer.

For example:

Round[{0.5, 1.5, 2.5, 3.5, 4.5}]

gives

asked by wxffles https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=427 82 votes

answered by Per Alexandersson https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=488 50 votes

Why is raytracing so slow?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=219629

I’m trying to get some rays to bounce in a circle. But I want to be able to control the reflections, i.e. the direction the rays bounce in the circle. I have a MWE below, and it is severely limited by ...

asked by Tomi https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=36939 31 votes

answered by Tim Laska https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=61809 42 votes

How do I identify the source of a "Tag times protected" error?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=11982

I have some code that looks like

Table[ 
    a = 1; 
    b = {2, 3} 
    c = i;, 
    {i, 2} 
]

which gives an error:   Set::write: Tag Times in c {2,3} is Protected....

asked by dearN https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=204 29 votes

answered by Mr.Wizard https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=121 35 votes

Mathematica command that allows it to read my intentions

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=194384

In version 2.0 of Mathematica there was a command, ReadProgrammerIntentions[ ] which allowed it rapidly compose code that could solve problems simple to complex, ...

asked by MikeY https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=47314 52 votes

answered by MarcoB https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=27951 38 votes

How to make a Spherical Cow?

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Being a theoretical physicist, I always have a great respect for Spherical Cow. So I thought about making one myself. I am not sure how can I create (something considered to be the simplest!) this ...

asked by Sumit https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=8070 69 votes

answered by andre314 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5467 76 votes

2.5.3 -Can you answer these questions?

Setting pieces of "matrices" - unwanted behavior

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=234703

I am constructing matrices whose elements are lists themselves (of varying length), and am (re)setting the entries of these matrices using among others the "All" command. It seems that in ...

asked by Stijn https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=69486 2 votes

system of coupled nonlinear pdes with FEM (magneto-hydrodynamic mass transfer)

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I’m trying to reproduce the magneto-hydrodynamic flow studied here using the nonlinear FEM functionality, and have been having trouble implementing the Neumann boundary conditions. Pardon the long ...

asked by George Varnavides https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=41179 1 vote

Create a Cellular Automata rule in Mathematica

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I want to create an image in a cellular automata, more specifically an image of an object, like a turtle for example. I found this article online, and i am trying to replicate the results for growing ...

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2.6 Thursday, November 12, 2020

2.6.1 Top new questions this week

How to cut a list by max sum

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=234240

 {5, 10, 3, 8, 9, 8, 8, 4, 1, 7}

let maxsum=20, then I get ...

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answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 12 votes

Is it possible to ask Mathematica to stick two plots together to give a continuous plot ? (An example is given)

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I want to plot a function over a large range of \(x\). The problem is that for very large \(x\), even increasing PlotPoint to \(5\times 10^6\) and MaxRecursion 15, it does not give the whole result. But I ...

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answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 15 votes

ReplaceAll, Unexpected output

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Each week I import a dataset, and every week the dataset differs in length (the number of records). After the import I need to do some transformations. One of these transformations is the ReplaceAll.

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answered by Carl Woll https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=45431 9 votes

Find All Permutations for Multiset

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Take a list with repetitions, say {a, a, b, c}, and some permutation thereof, say {c, a, b, a}. I want to know which ...

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answered by ciao https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=11467 6 votes

Counting the number of edges between two graph partitions

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=234462

Consider the following:

g = RandomGraph[WattsStrogatzGraphDistribution[1000, 0.1, 5]] 
comm = FindGraphPartition[g, 2]; 
CommunityGraphPlot[g, comm]

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answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 5 votes

Summing over Partitions

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Imagine I have a list of integers \(l=\{l_1,l_2,...,l_{50}\}\), say, for example

l = RandomInteger[10, 50]

and I want to find how many ways there are of summing ...

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answered by Carl Woll https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=45431 6 votes

Incomplete web image scraping

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=234154

Occasionally when I scrape images from a webpage, such as:

Import["https://www.freeart.com/gallery/m/mondrian/mondrian.html", "Images"]

only a ...

asked by David G. Stork https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9735 5 votes

answered by Rohit Namjoshi https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=58370 4 votes

2.6.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

Positioning axes labels

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=87388

I need to change the position of my axes labels such that the y-axis label is in the middle and parallel to the y-axis. I’d also like the x-axis label to be in the middle of the x-axis rather than ...

asked by John_dydx https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=7849 15 votes

answered by Virgil https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=27697 16 votes

How to perform a multi-peak fitting?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=26336

I am wondering how to implement the multi-peak detecting and fitting in Mathematica. Following is an example of fitting the data using three peaks (such that the data ~ peak1 + peak2 + peak3). The ...

asked by Everett You https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1389 55 votes

answered by Silvia https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=17 55 votes

How to generate a random snowflake

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=39361

'Tis the season...

And it’s about time I posed my first question on Mathematica Stack Exchange. So, here’s an holiday quest for you Graphics (and P-Chem?) gurus.

What is your best code for generating ...

asked by Peltio https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=6745 140 votes

answered by Silvia https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=17 181 votes

Figuring when the minute and hour hand coincide on a clock

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=573

I would like to list all possible times in a 12-hour period, where the hour hand overlaps the minute hand completely. This is really a question about three distinct things - to be done in Mathematica ...

asked by Steve D https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=191 15 votes

answered by Verbeia https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=8 21 votes

Is there an open source implementation of Mathematica-the-language?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=4454

I’ve seen questions before such as "What is the best open-source equivalent for Mathematica?", but that specific question (and that line of inquiry in general) cares more about the computer algebra ...

asked by sblom https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=178 122 votes

answered by Simon https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=34 85 votes

How to make a Spherical Cow?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=125043

Being a theoretical physicist, I always have a great respect for Spherical Cow. So I thought about making one myself. I am not sure how can I create (something considered to be the simplest!) this ...

asked by Sumit https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=8070 69 votes

answered by andre314 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5467 76 votes

What’s the most difficult multidimensional integral that Mathematica has solved?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=222184

I am interested in benchmarking numerical integration methods and am trying to develop a wider set of difficult multivariate examples. For my particular methods, I only want to look at non-negative-...

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2.6.3 Can you answer these questions?

Solving \(E[abXab]=Y\) for Gaussian \((a,b)\)

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=234502

I have \(d/2\)-dimensional variables \(a,b\) jointly distributed as Gaussian(\(\mu ,\Sigma \)) in \(d\) dimensions, and need to solve the following equation for \(X\) \[E[ab^TXab^T]=Y\] This is equivalent to ...

asked by Yaroslav Bulatov https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=217 1 vote

Problem with RunProcess

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=234260

I’m trying to use the RunProcess function to run docker on Mac OS using Mathematica. But there is a problem:

asked by Wei Li https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=75601 1 vote

Does NumberLinePlot give the whole results over a large domain? Or we need to increase its precision?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=234324

I use this code over the domain \(x\in (0,300)\)

asked by charmin https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=74550 1 vote

2.7 Thursday, November 5, 2020

2.7.1 Top new questions this week

Why is there a discrepancy between JoinedCurve/FilledCurve and the underlying BSplineCurve segments?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=233846

This may be related to How to discretize a BezierCurve?, but this question deals with BSplineCurves with specific SplineWeights, ...

asked by robjohn https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=232 10 votes

answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 8 votes

Converting an equation with units to one without units

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=233804

I may have a solution but it is not slick! See below Doing numerical calculations with functions that use units can be very slow. I would like to have a function or operator that can turn my functions ...

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answered by march https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=29734 2 votes

Generate an e machine graph from transition probability matrices

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=234036

I am trying to generate this type of graphic:

see Fig.1a from https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.3587. This process is associated with two transition matrices

asked by AG1123 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=36275 6 votes

answered by Anton Antonov https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=34008 7 votes

Deconvolution approaches for 3D data

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=233877

Building neural nets in the WL is great. I was in the process of rewriting a previous GAN of mine in the WL to see if I can get better performance, and was surprised to find that the standard ...

asked by BBirdsell https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=49805 6 votes

construct a lattice with a defined unitcell

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=233863

We can construct a base-centered tetragonal unit cell by: LatticeData["CenteredTetragonal", "Image"]

But how can we construct a lattice by

asked by Inzo Babaria https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=33967 6 votes

answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 7 votes

How to remove Null plot markers in QuantilePlot?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=233816

Bug introduced in 12.0 and persisting in 12.1.1

I want to change the plot markers of the data points in QuantilePlot. This seems pretty straightforward:

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answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 5 votes

Split in non-overlapping sub-lists with elements within an interval from the first member

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I want to split a large ordered list into consecutive non-overlapping sub-lists, such that all elements are within an interval from the first member of the sub-list . For example:

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answered by WReach https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=142 7 votes

2.7.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

Code that generates a mandala

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=136974

My little brother asked me to print original mandalas for coloring. I would like some idea on how to create them, but without color, so he can color them.

asked by zeros https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=26849 73 votes

answered by Anton Antonov https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=34008 97 votes

How to create word clouds?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=2334

Word clouds are rather useless fancy and visually appealing plots, where words are plotted with different sizes according to their frequency in a corpus. Many applications exist out there (Wordle, ...

asked by István Zachar https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=89 145 votes

answered by Heike https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=46 119 votes

How can I draw the Olympic rings with Mathematica?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=8885

How can I draw the 5 interlocking Olympic rings with Mathematica? (SVG version) Edit

Hard choice, but some pretty cool answers here. I didn’t have 3D answers in mind when I posted the question, but ...

asked by Mike Honeychurch https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=77 44 votes

answered by cormullion https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=61 23 votes

Calling Correct Function for Plotting DiracDelta

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=3506

I am wondering what is the correct function in Mathematica to plot the true impulse function, better known as the DiracDelta[] function. When using this inside of a ...

asked by night owl https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=116 17 votes

answered by Heike https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=46 19 votes

How to create effect like Van Gogh’s stroke brush?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=39003

I need to apply Van Gogh’s stroke brush effect to a random image Take the following image as an example:

Thank you so much if you could help!

asked by user10495 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=10495 34 votes

answered by Simon Woods https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=862 51 votes

Parallel and perpendicular symbol from Mathematica to LaTeX

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=46538

I want to get the following expression from Mathematica to LaTeX:

\[ \begin {bmatrix} E_{\parallel } \\ E_{\perp } \end {bmatrix} \]

I have tried to use inbuilt ’symbol’ character from the special ...

asked by Steve Hatcher https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13314 19 votes answered by Sjoerd C. de Vries https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=57 27 votes

Help find a bright object on Mars!

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=11819

In today’s news, scientists found a bright object on one of Curiosity’s photos (it’s near the bottom of the picture below). It’s a bit tricky to find - I actually spent quite some time staring at the ...

asked by Victor K. https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1351 198 votes

answered by Niki Estner https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=242 257 votes

2.7.3 Can you answer these questions?

How can I determine and then plot a confidence bands in QuantilePlot?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=233931

Does anyone know if its possible to plot a confidence band in QuantilePlot? I haven’t been able to find any documentation for this, or a previous example on here.

asked by Q.P. https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=27119 3 votes

How to remove the smallest term from asymptotic expansion?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=233823

It is well-known that \(e^{-1/x}\sim o(x^n)\) as \(x\to 0^+\) for any \(n\in \mathbb {N}\), thus if I do an asymptotic expansion for a function, say \(f=1/(1-x)+e^{-1/x}\) as \(x\to 0^+\), I expect to receive an ...

asked by user142288 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=59534 5 votes

Solving the following system of integrodifferential equations: speed up of the code

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=233726

Consider a system of equations

asked by John Taylor https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=41058 1 vote

2.8 Thursday, October 29, 2020

2.8.1 Top new questions this week

Dynamically drag graph vertices

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=233409

Is it possible to make a dynamic graph with an ability to drag vertices? In other words let vertices behave like Locators and change its ...

asked by swish https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2490 9 votes

answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 13 votes

Display Number with SI prefixes

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=233503

I have a number of val = 0.000015783 which represents a current value in Amps. I want to display it with 3 significant digits and with SI prefixes instead of the ...

asked by tobalt https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=27818 7 votes

answered by creidhne https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=41569 6 votes

Understanding the profiler: Is pattern matching/de-structuring expensive?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=233388

I was profiling some code and I am trying to understand what the results mean. Suppose we have the very idiomatic,

asked by ITA https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=42145 7 votes

How to select the fastest approach for large numerical data computations?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=233677

I really love the flexibility of Mathematica: there are several ways to perform one task. However, to get the performance of the intense numeric calculation, it can ...

asked by Nam Nguyen https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1712 6 votes

answered by Szabolcs https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=12 7 votes

Performance of pure function - Best way to define a function?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=233637

In general, to define a function, we often use f[x_]. Another way is to use pure function (full form and shorthand). I want to test the performance of these ...

asked by Nam Nguyen https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1712 6 votes

Font style inconsistency on "number sign" (hashtag) and "at symbol"

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Why number sign "#" (known as hashtag symbol on social media) or at sign "@" are not consistent with the ...

asked by azerbajdzan https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=53172 6 votes

answered by creidhne https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=41569 9 votes

Solving a Nonlinear Complementary Problem (plasticity)

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=233340

I would like to solve the following: given \(t\mapsto \sigma (t)\) and \(E>0\), \(\sigma _y>0\), find \(\epsilon \) such that:

asked by anderstood https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=18767 5 votes

answered by xzczd https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1871 4 votes

2.8.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

Crack CAPTCHA using deep learning

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=143691

Deep convolutional neural networks are very good at computer vision related tasks. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is one important branch of computer vision. In fact, the convolution neural ...

asked by xslittlegrass https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1364 87 votes

answered by xslittlegrass https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1364 98 votes

Why I get the "Set::write: "Tag Times in is Protected." error?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=11868

Why I get the error below with this code:

asked by Aurelius https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1669 10 votes

answered by Mark McClure https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=36 13 votes

What do the X and Y axis stand for in the Fourier transform domain?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=85139

In Wolfram Mathematica the function Fourier has the following declaration

Fourier[list]

And after a list is given to the ...

asked by user253956 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=29958 27 votes

answered by Hugh https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=12558 61 votes

Where can I find examples of good Mathematica programming practice?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=18

I consider myself a pretty good Mathematica programmer, but I’m always looking out for ways to either improve my way of doing things in Mathematica, or to see if there’s something nifty that I haven’t ...

asked by J. M.’s discontentment https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=50 553 votes

answered by faysou https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=66 486 votes

How to calculate scalar curvature Ricci tensor and Christoffel symbols in Mathematica?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=8895

I am seeking a convenient and effective way to calculate such geometric quantities. I’ve used packages like TensoriaCalc, but they don’t work at all time. Sometimes,...

asked by Zoe Rowa https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1713 40 votes

answered by Yi-Zen Chu https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4869 18 votes

How to add a front-end to the free Wolfram Engine?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=198839

https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/05/launching-today-free-wolfram-engine-for-developers/

http://www.wolfram.com/engine/

The Free Wolfram Engine for Developers is available for pre-production ...

asked by Alexey Golyshev https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=23402 63 votes

answered by Alexey Golyshev https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=23402 53 votes

Plotting Complex Quantity Functions

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=3458

Trying to plot with complex quantities seems not to work properly in what I want to accomplish. I would like to know if there is a general rule/way of plotting when you have complex counterparts in ...

asked by night owl https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=116 42 votes

answered by Artes https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=184 29 votes

2.8.3 Can you answer these questions?

How to define a derivative of a function at some point?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=233672

Consider a function  derivative[x_]:=D[Sin[x],x]

When calling it with some argument, like derivative[2], instead of \(\cos (x)\) it gives me \(\partial _{2}\sin (2)\). Is ...

asked by John Taylor https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=41058 1 vote

Insufficient memory problem in Mathematica

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=233470

I am trying to initialize a 48600 x 48600 packed array from a sparse matrix and a diagonal matrix in Mathematica 8. If S1 is a sparsearray of that size then and S2 is list of 48600 length, then I am ...

asked by Roopayan Ghosh https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=54433 4 votes

Classify; how UtilityFunction matrix is applied to resolve prediction?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=233669

I can’t find any explanation about the details of the real computation, please anybody knows?

asked by pablo https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=61453 1 vote

2.9 Thursday, October 22, 2020

2.9.1 Top new questions this week

How can I reproduce this mandala with Mathematica?

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I found this image on the Internet and it is very beautiful. How can I reproduce it? The ideal would be to be able to control the colors of the outside as well as the center.

asked by Susana https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=37778 12 votes

answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 32 votes

Tennis Racket theorem

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Torque-free Euler equations experiment seen in low gravity of Russian spacecraft is modelled here with a view to see its tumbling motion around the intermediate axis \(\omega _2\) rotation. However its ...

asked by Narasimham https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=19067 10 votes

answered by Alex Trounev https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=58388 16 votes

Climbing/Descending the Integer Ladder

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A fun combinatoric puzzle that’s popped up in my work that I think would be cute to have a Mathematica solution to, if anyone wants to give it a go. It’s basically a ladder climbing/descending problem ...

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answered by Leonid Shifrin https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=81 5 votes

Remove inner brackets

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If I have the result

asked by GlomGive https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=75305 7 votes

answered by wuyudi https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=68689 10 votes

Identify the Vertices and Lines around the edges of a free surface - Mesh/DiscreteGraphics

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To write a mesher that closes a mesh surface using an implied surface from a boundary spline curve and mesh generated using DiscreteGraphics, I need to identify the Vertices and Lines around the edges ...

asked by mh2000 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=57215 7 votes

answered by Tim Laska https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=61809 8 votes

How can I extract the edge points from an image?

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I want to extract the edge points from a text image and use ListPlot[points] to visualize those points:

I tried to used ...

asked by vito https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=30288 7 votes

answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 9 votes

How to speed up integers finding function?

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Playing with integers I looked for a way of finding, let’s say, \(4\)-digits positive integers such that \(a,b,a+b\) had the same digits, like \[1089 + 8019 = 9108\] I am a newbie and I used this function

asked by Raffaele https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=49764 7 votes

answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 12 votes

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