Questions about the use of built-in Mathematica functions, including pure functions.
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How to pass arguments between functions
I have two Functions, f[] and g[]. f is passed some values ,say ...
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What is PointForm?
I stumbled across a function called PointForm but the only documentation I can find is the pop-up line offered by autocomplete, which contains the same information ...
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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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Mathlink and multithreading
In order to make my computations faster I have developed a C/C++ application calling Mathematica kernel and performing many operations using Mathematica functions for equation solving.
Now I want to ...
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Help on how to write a function to be used with NMinimize
I need some help to write a proper function to be used as a parameter on NMinimize. Here is the code of the function to be minimized (Please correct, optimize and rewrite the code if you want to - I ...
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How can I solve this complicated custom function numerically?
I have a complicated function that calculates the total value of payments from an account into which deposits are made annually. I'd like to solve the function for a growth rate numerically, but ...
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ProbabilityDistribution PDF on boundary points
I would like to evaluate the PDF of a custom ProbabilityDistribution at the min and max values. However, PDF[...] returns 0 at ...
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Is there documentation on the comparative performance of Mathematica functions?
Recently I have been solving some Project Euler problems. I find there are always several ways to do the same thing. For example, one could join two lists like this:
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From notebook,how can I change variable value with in .m file dynamically?
I wrote a function named Testing.
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Evaluating a function on permutations of its arguments
Say I have a function "temp" of $n+1$ variables, $y,z1,z2,z3,...,zn$. I want to test if my function has certain symmetries like swapping $y$ with square of any $z$, swapping any two of the zs, ...
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Does Graphics`Mesh`SimplePolygonQ[] work for you?
Graphics`Mesh`SimplePolygonQ is an undocumented function. I'm using Mathematica 7, and when I try:
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Notebook UI: Autocompletion - Display function arguments when typing?
Is there a setting to display the required arguments of a function when typing as Visual Studio, Matlab, etc. does?
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Solving for vector elements in a function to which the vectors are not passed explicitly
I want to define a function which takes in two integers (indicating the lengths of 2 vectors), and solves a simple set of expressions at a set of points to find all the values in both the vectors.
so ...
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How can I obtain the function described by given set of central moments?
I want to investigate how my function P behaves with different probability functions rho as input variables.
This means
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How to use If with long instructions?
I would like to execute the following code, in which if the condition is true it should execute two instructions instead of one. When I run the code the instructions are executed, but no result is ...
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Skip one step of the loop if there is NIntegrate::eincr: message
is there possibility to skip one step of the loop if in this step there appear error like NIntegrate::eincr:? For example: when I use "do" loop and when one of the step is evaluating I would like to ...
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FindMaximum inconsistency
The code below seems to work for n<11. But for n=11, and above, it outputs newa then just outputs "beep" sound.
WhyTheBeep says "The kernel Local has quit ...
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Strange result from integrate
I am working on the following problem. However, the first task takes too long, although the answer 0 is correct. In the second task, to reduce the calculation time, ...
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How Can I Use Conditional with Rational Domain Restrictions
I am reasking this question in a new thread. My previous post How Can I Use Solve/Reduce Output? seemed to have led to a an interesting dissussion of how to (better) solve the problem that produced ...
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Why is NonlinearModelFit calling the model function with symbolic arguments?
I have a model to fit which is made of numerical functions and so it can give a value for any numerical value of the arguments, but creates an error when called with symbols. ...
