Questions about the use of built-in Mathematica functions, including pure functions.
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How to pass composite function list to SortBy?
In order to sort alphanumeric-as-string data of the form {"T3", "T14", "T1", "E2"}, so that "T14" comes after ...
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Ways to change an explicit function into a pure function
I'm trying to use FixedPoint to solve a transcendental equations, but the first argument of the FixedPoint should be a pure ...
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RankedMax and Max do not behave identically
I have spent three hours debugging some code and at the end I think I found a bug. Otherwise I cannot explain what I am seeing:
When I want to use RankedMax on ...
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How to write values of function to file?
For example, say I wanted to plot Sin(x) like this:
Plot[Sin[x],{x,0,2 Pi}]
But instead of plotting to a graph, I want to now tabulate the values of Sin[x] to a ...
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Why does my function defined with constraints on patterns not work? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why doesn't PatternTest work with Composition?
My function is something like this,
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Is it possible to insert arguments into functions when they're used like Function@ or //Function?
Is it possible to insert arguments into functions when they're used like Function@ or //Function? Sometimes I need to do this, but then I have to return to the standard function usage: Function[]
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What Method options does FindInstance accept?
While answering Trouble getting FindInstance to return multiple results for certain constraints it became clear that for this problem FindInstance would be better ...
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How to find the maximum value and the argument of a function of three variables y dividing into grids?
I am dealing with a non-linear function of three variables, namely R0k, R1 and alpha. To find its maximum value, I divided the three variables into grids and maximized the function by plotting the ...
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What is the Mathematica equivalent for the Excel function tinv()?
TINV() returns the t-value of the Student's t-distribution as a function of the probability and the degrees of freedom. For example ...
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How to make the suggestion box appear?
When you type a function in Matlab, quickly a suggestion box comes up showing functions similar to the one you're typing. I thought that Mathematica didn't have this but one day, I typed half of a ...
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How to choose variables from a list for a function and then use the solution in a subsequent function?
I am trying to calculate heating degree days and cooling degree days and output that information to a table. I am using mathematica's curated data to do this. In text this is what I would like to ...
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Defining Tags in Reap
I am trying to use Sow/Reap to replace Append in my code. The problem is that I need to ...
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Nesting multiple functions of multiple variables
I was wondering how one would go about nesting multiple functions of, say, two variables. The problem comes from trying to implement the Chirikov standard map without using "for" cycles. I found a ...
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How can you use and convert Gauss-Krüger-Coordinates in Mathematica?
I am given geographic data in the form of Gauss-Krüger-Coordinates and would like to calculate distances with them and convert them to longitude/latitude coordinates in another system for plotting ...
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LogLikelihood function from the Time Series package is apparently missing
The Time Series package for Mathematica comes with a function called LogLikelihood. It is discussed and used extensively in the documentation (pdf). So does ...
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How to use summation to get the value of a binary number?
How to use summation to get the value of a binary number?
I want to do this:
$(x_{n}x_{n-1}...x_{0})=\sum_{i=0}^{n}x_{i}\cdot b^{i} $
But it seems that I can only do something like this:
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Implementing continuous phase/Arg function
In MATLAB there's a function called phase that is just like our Listable friend Arg, but ...
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inverse function not working — but providing values for some arguments, a symbol otherwise?
Could you help me with what Mathematica is doing here, in the last lines? (The rest is here for context.) I removed the output to let you simply run this. Thanks.
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Can we know the background code associated with basic mathematica functions
I wanted to know how computers calculate basic functions like Sqrt so first I checked how humans do it I found that they use something called "Newton's method" that ...
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Using RegionFunction on multiple plots
I realize that the Plot function can plot multiple functions of x at the same time, using { }. I also know that the ...
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How to load a package without naming conflicts?
This question applies to any package, but I encountered this problem while working with graphs.
There are symbols in the Combinatorica package (such as ...
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How do I plot Thomae's function in Mathematica?
I wanted to plot this function
$$f(x) =\begin{cases}
1 & \text{if } x= 0 \\
\tfrac1{q} & \text{if } x = \tfrac{p}{q}\\
0 & \text{if } x \in \mathbb{R}-\mathbb{Q}
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Is it possible to get the order of inputs when “overloading” an orderless function?
When working with symbolic matrix operations or other objects which don't have commutative multiplication, it would be nice to not have to constantly switch out times for ...
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Functions in a different context are replaced with infix forms of their namesake in System`
So, in an attempt to help out Fabian with his question, I did what I often do, and created a new symbol in the Pillsy` package that I could play with. Since it was ...
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Is there a bug in Pick?
I wanted to use the Pick function with a condition. But there seems to be an issue here. Take a look at this:
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How to find Matano plane
I have discrete collection of data points (10 to 10^4). I want to describe them by a continuous function and find a x value z, ...
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How to use ForAll in Reduce
I was wondering: how does one use the ForAll function in Reduce? In particular, I am looking for the set $\{w\in \mathbb{R}^2 | ...
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What's a good style for inheriting Options[] of built-in function?
Options[myPlot] = Options[Plot];
myPlot[args___] := ...
When defining a "wrapper" function like the above, I'd like it to inherit the ...
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Create string from character code
Is it possible to convert a charcode/keycode to a string?
I want to do this to create variables in a generated equation.
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How to convert binary float to decimal float
I need to convert binary float to decimal float in Mathematica, ideally between any two bases.
FromDigits["1.111111", 2] does not work.
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Graph relationships between functions and variables [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Has anyone written any function to automatically build a dependency graph of an arbitrary Mathematica function?
I need to make sense out of a huge notebook (17Kloc) ...
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What default theoretical distribution does Mathematica use in PearsonChiSquareTest?
I used Mathematica's function PearsonChiSquareTest to test whether the data were drawn from a normal distribution.
As in the reference, I expected Mathematica to compare the result to a normal ...
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Is there a function to calculate studentized range?
Is there a built-in function for studentized range or do I have to build it myself?
Is there a test of normality for the studentized range?
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Growth of functions
Does somebody know if Mathematica can be used to calculate the growth of functions, that is in Big O, Theta, and Omega and find proper $n_{0}$ and $c_{1}$, $c_{2}$ respectively?
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FunctionInterpolation Errors / Question re Evaluation Order and Options
I have using Mathematica functions that takes a Cartesian coordinate relative to the Earth (xyz) and converts it to a latitude, longitude, and altitude (lla). And here it is:
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Plotting a simple relationship with Plot[] results in empty graph
I've moved this question over from StackExchange to get better visibility (and deleted the old question).
I have a user-defined relationship I'd like to plot:
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Mapping and Interpolation
Does Mathematica have a mapping function like scipy or any of the multidimensional ones?
By this I mean something like mapping $[1,100]$ onto $[7,20]$ for example.
Looking at Interpolate I only ...
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Function as an option to a function
I am new to mathematica ,so this question may seem a little naive.
I know how to use the option as an argument to a function, we can define an option by using ...
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GeoDirection and GeoDistance Memory Leaks: How to Recover the Memory?
The functions GeoDirection and GeoDistance have memory leaks. To see this, run the example functions below and watch as the Physical Memory Available in the Windows Task Manager, Performance tab, ...
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How do I use the result of Solve in a function definition?
I'm trying to adapt the following piece to the part where PowerF is a function of amax.
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Why can't D[] be used in place here? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
General::ivar is not a valid variable when plotting - what actually causes this and how to avoid it?
Beginner question:
Why can't I use ...
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How to create a list of pre-defined functions?
I would like to create a list of Cauchy distribution pdf's, having different locations of their maxima, and being multiplied by different factors; then I'd like to calculate those functions' values ...
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Function Interpolation with Automatic / Algorithmic Values Mesh
I have an underlying function f(x,y,z) that is computationally intensive, but is smooth and continuous. I'm needing to find the function values along a line in xyz. Currently, I'm calculating f at ...
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Calling Correct Function for Plotting DiracDelta
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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How to “ignore” an element of Map or MapIndexed
Say I have some function that I'm applying every element in a list to... if that element matches some criteria:
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What is so special about Prime?
When we try to evaluate Prime on big numbers (e.g. 10^13) we encounter the following issue :
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Block attributes of Equal
I answered “Equating matrices (or higher order tensors) element-wise” with:
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Cannot evaluate differential in Mathematica
I have a small toy script in Mathematica that I am trying to use to evaluate the pdf of $Y$ where $Y=X^2$, and $X$ is uniformly distributed in $[0,a]$.
The script is,
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