Questions about how Mathematica evaluates expressions, tracing evaluation (Trace*), handling expressions in unevaluated form (Hold*, Unevaluated), nonstandard evaluation, etc.
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Keep function range as a variable
Plot[2*x^2 - x + 2, {x, -1, 1}] plots a function of x from -1 to 1. As far as I can see, I cannot "save" this range in a variable:
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Stop TradtionalForm evaluating expression
I'm trying to get this expression to display as typed instead of evaluating the 1/1.121.
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Forcing evaluation of ArgMax
How to force evaluation of ArgMax before its output gets used in Solve?
Background: I'm trying to solve for the Nash ...
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How is the Mathematica kernel structured internally, and how does evaluation work?
There is so much information available for Java--the internal details of (for example) the JVM memory manager are well-documented, and the performance considerations arising from its interaction with ...
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A is fast, B is fast, but together they're Mathematica-crashing slow?
I'm trying to do something with finding solutions to a quantum mechanics problem with n wells. If there are 40 wells, I need to find the solution to an equation in the form:
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Behavior of expression evaluation in Plot
I'm confused with Mathematica's way of parsing expressions. I've been struggling with this for a while and never found an exhaustive answer, sometimes things don't parse the way I think they would ...
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Block attributes of Equal
I answered “Equating matrices (or higher order tensors) element-wise” with:
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Evaluation order control
This question is related to Evaluation order of Button[]'s action
Concusion was, Button[]'s actions are evaluated in preemptive link so "the code that needs ...
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Strange Behavior with RegionPlot
Consider the following code.
RegionPlot[Print[{x, y}], {x, -2, 2}, {y, -2, 2}, PlotPoints -> 2]
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Strange double evaluation using MorphologicalGraph
(MMA 9.0.0 on Mac OS/X 10.8)
Please consider the following snippet (this is as SMALL as I could make it -- my attempts at making a smaller repro-case eliminated the effect that I am investigating)
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Exclude Sections/Subsections/… from evaluation
I'm working on a large notebook and I want to exclude some sections and subsections from being evaluated when I evaluate the whole notebook.
Is there a way to exclude specific sections or ...
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Summation of If statements
The following made me curious. Suppose you want to sum the if statement If[x[i] < 1., x[i]^2, 0.] over i=1,2, i.e.
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Evaluation order of Button[]'s action
it looks like it should be well known issue but I haven't found answer anywhere.
Please tell me why the result (after clicking) of this:
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Using Evaluate and Evaluated -> True in Plot
A few use cases:
(1) This, as expected, returns (almost) immediately:
f[x_?NumericQ] := Evaluate[(Pause[1]; x)]
Plot[f[x], {x, 0, 1}]
(2) This takes ...
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How can I get the approximate analytical solution to this simple algebra equation?
Is there a way to get the analytical form to the root of this equation
2 A e (-ArcTanh[smax/s0] + ArcTanh[(smax Cos[w \[Zeta]])/s0]) == F0
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Derivative of a spline approximation
To approximate an experimental data function $f(t)$ with $t \in (t_{min},t_{max})$ I used a cubic spline $s(p)=(t(p),f(p))$ with the parameter $p \in (0,1)$ and $p = t/(t_{max}-t_{min})$ by using the ...
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Log function - why is Log[b,b] not being evaluated to 1?
Have been experimenting with the Log function to demonstrate simple Log relationships such as Log[xy], Log[x+y] etc.
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Why does this pattern with Plus not work for numbers?
I have a very simple question about redefining basic built-in functions, such as Plus. I'm pretty sure someone must have asked a similar question around here, but I ...
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UpValues evaluation with Dot operator
I would like to simplify some database notation, and I'm doing some tests with UpValues for that.
For example, if I set this Upvalue fot tab1:
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1answer
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Make Mathematica wait before replacing?
How can I force Mathematica to completely evaluate a subexpression before using a replacement rule?
For example, consider the following definition (for the series of ...
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how to print stack trace when TimeConstrained times out
According to the documentation, TimeConstrained generates an interrupt which interrupts the computation. This interrupt is treated just like an abort, at least in ...
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Evaluation of OptionValue[]
I have a function that takes an OptionsPattern and I want to access several options, say a, and ...
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Array of functions, evaluation in plot
I would like to create two arrays of functions yfunc[[i]] and tfunc[[i]], with each entry of those functions being a function ...
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How to catch the “Preemptive” evaluations from within the main loop?
When trying to make an optimized version of my plotRange fonction I faced a problem of catching the "Preemptive" evaluations ...
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Problem with inequality using refine
I am using inequalities to follow some line of reasoning in Mathematica and I came across a problem I can not explain to myself. Does from a>=0 and b>=0 not follow a+b >= 0? How does Mathematica ...
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Button's command is not evaluated in iteration
I wish I didn't feel like a newbie after several months, but...
If I enter the following:
Table[ Button[ "Number: " <> ToString @ i, Print @ i], {i, 1, 5}]
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Problem with ParametricPlot of multiple Curves
I have written a function f[Ne,t,T], that gives back a list of results when evaluated with numeric values of the variables Ne, ...
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How to ContourPlot a Table? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why is ContourPlot not displaying this curve?
Why do I have to put Evaluate[] here
I'm trying to plot certain contours of a function $f:\mathbb R^2\to\mathbb R$.
What I ...
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Function to preserve evaluation on display?
I'm looking for a function that applies the following behavior to an expression:
-When the expression is given as the full input, or as part of a function that cannot be evaluated, it remains in ...
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Why does Evaluate[a[[1]]]=0 assign a value to a variable while a[[1]]=0 doesn't?
I'm trying to do a small page counter with Mathematica, for leting me know about my reading progress on some books. I'm stuck on a problem:
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Why does Dynamic output cause CPU usage when onscreen?
I write such a line in Mathematica:
{Slider[Dynamic[s]], Dynamic[f[x_] := s*x]}
After evaluation, the CPU immediately runs at full power. And if you scroll the ...
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PlotStyle does not work when plotting a non-evaluated list of functions
When a list of functions is passed to Plot in an unevaluated form (e.g. with Through), the result is a plot with single color.
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Preventing Numerical value from being evaluated
I have searched stackoverflow (and comparable pages) for quite a while now (got redirected from there to this specialized stack), and I surrender. I am trying to evaluate an expression that is small ...
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Different behaviour of ValueQ inside and outside of a loop
I need to store a rather big number of variables and I tried to do that by storing each variable as Z[n] with varying n. I guess this was not my best idea. The first problem I encountered is when I ...
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Do Import and Get work asynchronously? Can I prevent this?
I'm getting strange behavior in some of my notebooks that makes it seem like Import and Get load asynchronously. When I evaluate ...
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can a ColorFunction have side effects?
Can anyone explain this (to me) odd behavior. If I run this code once (fresh kernel) it works as intended.
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How can I set a keyboard shortcut to run a command?
I want to use this to add a keyboard shortcut to an undo function I wrote. The basic problem is the following:
I have a command, let's say x=1, and I want to run ...
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Return partial result when MemoryConstrained aborts NDSolve
I use NDSolve to solve a large set (~400) of coupled ODEs. Sometimes, the memory (~4GB) gets filled up, and my computer becomes impossible to work with, because it ...
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Context unique to each group at a specified level
Recent versions of Mathematica provide the option of having a unique $Context for each cell group, via:
Evaluation > Notebook's Default Context > Unique to Each ...
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Get the name of a symbol passed to a function
I'm trying to get the name of a symbol passed to a function with this:
f[x_] := {SymbolName[x], x}
SetAttributes[f, HoldFirst]
x = 5;
f[x]
But ...
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Obtain input expression from history without evaluating
I typed and evaluated an expression, but deleted it from the notebook. For instance, suppose it was
In[1]:= Round@SessionTime[]
Out[1]= 2
I now want to retrieve ...
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Why does ++++x return an increment of 2 when the value of x is only incremented by 1?
This line returns 3:
x = 1; ++++x
However, the value of x after the increment is only ...
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How can I create a custom control which evaluates to a list of values or replacements?
I have a set of variables which are used in various places in my calculations (solving a system, initial conditions, etc.). In order to make this easier to deal with, I want to make a control-like ...
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Possible to evaluate only selected cells?
Is it possible to evaluate only the selected cells programmatically that I am interested in? Say in current cell to bottom of the notebook, instead of evaluate notebook or cells?
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Why can't Mathematica parallelize this?
The following code makes mathematica print "ParallelTable::nopar1: [...] cannot be parallelized; proceeding with sequential evaluation."
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Prevent Plus from threading InterpolatingFunction
For an InterpolatingFunction $y:\ \mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}^2$, Plus is unaware of this, so when I do any modifications to it in ...
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Updating a tracked symbol inside Refresh?
I have some code inside a Manipulate, whose goal is to allow the user to edit the upper half of the matrix while keeping it symmetric at all time. The minimal code ...
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Simple ways to evaluate a derivative at a point?
The contrast in behavior between, say,
f[x_] = Sin[x^2];
f'[2]
vs.
u[x_, y_] = Cos[x + y^2];
has always bothered my ...
