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### How to evaluate only arguments, but leave topmost expression unevaluated? [duplicate]

I want to represent expressions mostly in unevaluated form, but being able to evaluate it's subparts. For example, how to evaluate only arguments, but leave topmost expression unevaluated? For ...
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### Where can I find examples of good Mathematica programming practice?

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 ...
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### How to apply or map a list of functions to a list of data?

Say I have a group of functions: f1[a_] := a * -1; f2[a_] := a * 100; f3[a_] := a / 10.0; and some data in a list: ...
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### How do you check if there are any equal arguments(even sublist) in a list?

I would like to set up a function which has to return True if at least two arguments of a given List are equal. So if I give {1,4,6,2} to the function it has to ...
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### Compiling more functions that don't call MainEvaluate

I would like to use Compile with functions defined outside Compile. For example if I have the two basic functions F and G F[x_] := x + 2 G[x_] := x And I want ...
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### Elegantly split a matrix into positive and negative parts?

I have a matrix $M$ of real components, and I want to split it into two matrices $M^+$ and $M^-$ of the same dimensions as $M$, where $M^+$ contains the positive components of $M$ (the remaining ...
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### Convert head Times to List

I can convert an expression with the head of Times,for example, 12*12.5*13*13.5*14*14.5 to {12, 12.5, 13, 13.5, 14, 14.5} by ...
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### Implementing a safe ValueQ that does not evaluate its argument

Mathematica has a built-in function ValueQ. Quoting the docs, ValueQ[expr] gives True if ...
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### Is it possible to define new PlotTheme?

In version 10 one can define, say, \$PlotTheme = "Scientific" Which changes the appearance of all plots. This is fantastic because on the one hand, I can have ...
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### How to access new colour schemes in version 10?

Many colour schemes and colour functions can be accessed using ColorData. Version 10 introduced new default colour schemes, and a new customization option using ...
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### Extract function arguments

Is there a way to extract the arguments of a function? Consider the following example: I have this sum ...
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### Join lists in a list of lists

What's the best way to join two consecutive lists in a list of lists ? For example if I have the list x = {{1}, {2}, {3}, {4}} and I want to get in x ...
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### Threading a compiled function over multiple arguments of different lengths

I am interested in threading a compiled function over multiple argument lists of different lengths. I will explain this in two steps: Suppose f is some function. Then one can define another ...