Questions on attributes of functions in Mathematica.
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Block attributes of Equal
I answered “Equating matrices (or higher order tensors) element-wise” with:
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Custom attributes?
Is it possible to assign custom attributes to symbols and check them later?
SetAttributes[a, b]
says
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Define an 'inner product' with AngleBracket
I want to define my own little 'Inner Product' function satisfying properties of linearity and commutativity, and I'd like to use the "$\langle$" and "$\rangle$" symbols to output my results. For ...
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Why are the attributes of Plot changing?
In version 9, with a newly started Mathematica session, try the following code:
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Quickly look-up usages, options and attributes of symbols
When I'm writing code in the front-end, I find myself very often looking up the list of options of a symbol over and over again in the documentation center. In most cases you find there a list of ...
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how to differentiate formally?
I have been wrapping my head around this for a while now and I have not found a solution so far.
I want to work with an arbitrary number of variables in mathematica and use some built in functions.
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Force integration to be linear over sum?
Is there an obvious way to force Mathematica to separately integrate the terms in a sum? According to the docs,
When part of a sum cannot be integrated explicitly, the whole sum will stay ...
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Why can't I remove Orderless from Plus?
I am making some random algebra equations, and I want to have the ordering be random too, such that if my random equation generator makes x+1, the output stays ...
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SetAttributes[f,Flat]: Why the order dependence?
I'm experiencing a strange phenomenon. Here's a (quite artificial) test case:
The following definition work just fine:
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1answer
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Package automated way of ReadProtecting all symbols
My template for building packages has, at the end, the following expression that automatically ReadProtects all symbols defined in my ...
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DiracDelta attributes
Is there any reason why DiracDelta isn't a NumericFunction but DiracComb is?
I just ate a ...
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How do you set attributes on SubValues?
SubValues, as discussed in a previous question, are declared as follows
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