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What calendar is Mathematica using for dates in the distant past?
It appears that Mathematica treats all dates as proleptic Gregorian dates by default, a hypothesis that can be easily tested by using AbsoluteTime to compute the ...
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Quiet doesn't work with FindRoot when using Brent method
The following has no solution:
FindRoot[x == 1, {x, 0.25, 0, 0.5}]
And Mathematica correctly warns us:
FindRoot::reged: The point {0.5} is at the edge of the ...
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func::usage needs to be run twice?
There is an annoying problem that I can't figure out why it's happening. I have defined a usage for a my function tensorA:
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Why does Mathematica give an incorrect answer to this multiple integral?
This is not a new problem but I would like to understand why Mathematica gives the result that it does. (Volume of a hypersphere)
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Help bogged down at first query
When I open help at the first time in a mathematica session and I submit a query it always get bogged down for many seconds until a message appears as in the picture. Then I select continue waiting, I ...
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HorizontalGauge causes problem with ScalingFunctions -> “Log”
I am trying to use HorizontalGauge[Dynamic[expt], {0.1, 100}, ScalingFunctions -> "Log"], i.e. a gauge with a logarithmic scale. This creates an error, a graph ...
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Compile not correctly initializing a variable defined inside Module
In the following example, inside the minimumX's Module, x is initialized to 1, but the ...
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110 views
PlotMarkers doesn't inherit PlotStyle when Graphics[a] isn't a List[]
Could somebody explain, why Circle does not inherit the PlotStyle of the plot when used as ...
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Mathematica 7: “LessEqual::nord:” error when using NMinimize on a real function
I encounter a problem (Mathematica 7) similar to Strategies to avoid LessEqual::nord in NMinimize? but the advised strategies don't work for me. Also, I get different results with different ...
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Break[] inside ColorFunction
f[x_?NumericQ]:= (Do[Break[],{i,1,2}];x)
Plot[x,{x,0,1},ColorFunction->(ColorData["Rainbow"][f[#]]&)]
Break::nofwd: No enclosing For, While, or Do found ...
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Compiled function crashes kernel when trying to list over different length arguments
I'm trying to speed up a tally/binning operation that I have to run many times.
I have many lists of between 1 and 10 numbers from the range [1,5] and I want to ...
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Integral with HeavisideTheta takes too long to evaluate
I tried to compute $$\int_{-1}^1 d x_1 \int_{-1}^1 d x_2 \int_{-1}^1 d y_1 \int_{-1}^1 d y_2 \theta(x_1 x_2 + y_1 y_2)\,$$ where $\theta$ is Heaviside's step function, by using
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Strange result from evaluating a Limit expression
When I evaluate the limit of (1-Cos[x]) Sin[1/x] at x = 0 in Mathematica 9, I obtained ...
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118 views
FinancialData property value at a given date
I was trying to get the volatility value of a specific equity on a given day.
Based on the Mathematica Help, the syntax is
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4
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164 views
Incompleteness of FindInstance
I've been playing around with Resolve and FindInstance. I know that Resolve should always ...
4
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155 views
NullSpace[_, Method->“OneStepRowReduction”] is sometimes wrong; how can I work out when this happens?
(This is on MMA 7.0.1.0 on OS X)
I've just found a large matrix m for which NullSpace[m] and ...
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124 views
Cannot save file
Hello I have a problem in saving files in Mathematica. I can't save not only notebooks but also figures. When I choose to save the notebook it open a window that says:
Mathematica could not find ...
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Unexpected result when reading Cell with comment-lines by NotebookRead
When considering this question about re-formatting Cell (also this one), I encountered an issue which confuses me. I'll let the code itself speak:
Consider the ...
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An recurrence equation that can be solved in version 7 but not in version 8
A friend of mine showed me this code sample:
RSolve[{a[n] == a[n - 5] + 1, Sequence @@ Table[a[i] == 1, {i, 5}]}, a[n], n] // Timing
It's solved by version 7 in ...
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Unexpected behavior of GeometricTransformation
I have the following mapping on the complex plane:
$$
z \mapsto \tau \mu z-1,
$$
where $\mu$ is complex, $\tau$ is real number. I want to draw the image of left unit semidisk and play with $\tau$.
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Why my Mathematica 9.0.1 wont work with some samples of Mathematica in Graph Theory?
I updated my Mathematica recently to 9.0.1 cause the previous version was giving me freaky result especially in FindMinimumCostFlow and ...
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89 views
Derivatives of list elements
Could someone explain the odd behavior of the Derivative function when drawing arguments from lists? We have,
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284 views
Simple contour integral with a parameter gone wrong
I run into the following problem, I tried to evaluate a very simple integral:
Assuming[ a > 0 , Integrate[Sin[a*s]/(s - I)^2, {s, -Infinity, Infinity}]]
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Is this a bug in ListPicker?
I use Mathematica v9.0.1 Home Edition. I recently modified some code to take advantage of the ListPicker Manipulate control (new ...
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Problem when merging cells including commentary
This is a more of a problem report than a question.
When merging the two cells
Cell1:
foo
(*foobar*)
bar
and Cell2:
...
