Questions on the manipulation of List objects in Mathematica, and the functions used for these manipulations.

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Correspondence between eigenvectors and eigenvalues [duplicate]

Let us say I have a matrix h (2x2). Now, I want to get the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of my matrix h: ...
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Separating positive and negative numbers into two arrays

$c$ is a vector with real numbers.I want to separate the positive ones and the negative ones into two vectors: $a$ and $b$. I have the following problem: When I do: ...
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Finding a best fit curve and plotting it [closed]

I have a list as shown below: m01 = {{250, 0.083121}, {200, 0.0888446}, {150, 0.0992422}, {100, 0.121567}, {50, 0.186825}} I'm new to Mathematica, and would like ...
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Keeping the length of vectors fixed

b and d are two arrays that are given. I create aa and ...
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Collecting roots of different equations and create a list

I solve two equations and have two solutions one by each equation. I want to create list of these roots. Could anyone please help me? Appreciate it. m02R150 = FindRoot[P1 == 0, {E1, 0.07, 0.1}] ...
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Extracting data from a table under conditions

I have a very large table with two columns. Let's say the name of first column is E and the name of the second is P. How can I get the E values when P = 0.
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How can I get a single solution to a set of inequality constraints?

I have a set of constraints to which I require integer solutions. However, instead of needing all possible integer solutions (as obtained by using ...
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Calibrating Precision in calculations

As the title says, I encounter an irritating problem which has to do with the accuracy or the precision used in the calculations. To be more specific, I have the following code: ...
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Transferring a list from one notebook to another

I have Mathematica code split into two notebooks. The first part is supposed to run and output a list of numbers into a text file, using Export. The second part ...
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removing elements that are contained in other elements

For example, I have a list of lists: l = {{a,b,c},{a,b,d},{d,e},{d},{a},{a,b},{f}}; And I want to remove all the lists that are contained in other lists: ...
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Problem with creating a large list of tuples

This is a follow-up question from Sum of Multinomial Coefficients I have thought about the meaning of the formula I mentioned and, with help, I implemented the following code: ...
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Merging two Lists

I have two tables. One is given by T1 = Table[{x, y, 0.}, {x, 0, V},{y, 0, V}] and from a calculation I have the second, a list of points {x, y, z} ...
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Mapping over the last level of a list, or equivalent operations

I would like to style each element of my list using Style. But when I try ...
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Get the coordinates from ContourPlot and RegionPlot

How do I get the coordinates from a contour plot I've done in Mathematica? For example, I have a two-variable function f[x, y], for which I can make a contour plot: ...
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Quick multiple selections from a list

What is the fastest way to make multiple selections from a list? Compiled methods included. For example, here are two methods for selecting a subset, compared:- ...
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How to solve equations self-consistently

I want to solve the following equation self-consistently. So, H.u = e.u {{1, d}, {d, 1}}.{u1, u2} = e.{u1, u2} I guess an initial value for ...
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How to separate a vector into two vectors, one having the first half of my original vector and the other having the second half

I have a set of n vectors with an even length. Let us make an easy example with 3 vectors of length=4: ...
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Creating an array eval [closed]

How can I create an one dimensional array (a vector) evaluating a function of two variables? I know how to do it with one variable: Array[f, n, {a, b}] generates a ...
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Separate an array in two arrays, the even and odd terms being separated in these two arrays

How can I separate the odd terms in one array and the even terms in another array,i.e., go from a={1,2,3,4} to aeven={2,4} ...
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Non-regular grid data

I have issue with non-regulary spaced data. I have set of 3 numbers {x, y, z} in my list. ...
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Remove redundant brackets. Clean up lists

There are numerous examples whose end result is the removal of empty brackets "{}" and empty lists here, I still can't find an example of simply removing redundant brackets though. (It's hard for ...
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Loop through a list and select elements

I am new to Mathematica and I have no idea how to make a basic for loop work. I want to loop through the elements of a list: Range[45, 200]. I want to select the ...
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How to get a number, but not a list, of the dimension of your array?

I need to use the dimension of a certain array, to use it as a bounder in a loop afterwards. The problem is that I get a list, when write : ...
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How to combine some elements of a list?

In order to simplify my expression, I face a list manipulation problem. For example, given the input list ...
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Creating a number based on given conditions

In the grade 7 math curriculum here in Alberta we teach divisibility. I'm trying to write a program to create questions based on the idea of a student being given say, 4 digits, and then choosing ...
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Find Roots in Do loop

Task: Finding roots in loop t = List[1, 2, 3, 4, 5] fx[x_] := a*x^2 - 5 List[Do[Print[FindRoot[fx[k] == 1, {a, 1}]], {k, 0, 5}]] Output: Currently the output is ...
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Elementwise join

I have two tensors of arbitrary but equal rank n (and equal dimensions): A and B, and I want to get a third tensor of rank n + ...
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Convert a list with three arguments {x0,x1, step} into an equidistant table?

How can I convert a list such as: a = {1, 2, 0.1} into sequence so that I can pass them into a function, e.g. I want to be able to do something like this ...
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Selecting subsets of a list containing a specific element

I'm trying to generate all the subsets of a set containing a specific element. For example, for the set {1, 2, 3, 4}, with the specific element I want inside each subset being 4, the required answer ...
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Multiply a list of matrices by a list of vectors

How does one multiply a list of matrices by a list of vectors, elementwise? For example, multiplying ...
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Sequence and boolean And

I'm trying to figure out if a calculation result it's a valid result. As it return a matrix, I need to test that every element it's a number, so I thought this could work... ...
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Find list position and mapping list

Sorry, my English is not very good. I have two lists: ...
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Best way to modify values in a list of rules?

Recently I had to solve a problem similar to this: Let's say I have a list of list of rules ...
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How to Set parts of indexed lists?

I would like to assign a list to an indexed variable and then change it using Part and Set like this: ...
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Given a list of lists, build a list in which lists with equal first and last elements are grouped together

I have a list of lists, and I'd like to build a new list, in which lists are in the same list if they have the same first and last element. Here's an example. Suppose I have ...
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How to make a simple tree yourself with defined distances for each generation?

I'm trying to make a function that generates a tree for spin spin analysis in spectroscopy. I though it would be pretty easy, but I'm totally stocked. The tree should look something like this: ...
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Where do those nulls come from? [closed]

I have seen discussions of unwanted nulls in the output in the context of building lists with conditions on the elements, but that is not involved here. I would like to know where the nulls come from ...
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Partition a set into $k$ non-empty subsets

The Stirling number of the second kind is the number of ways to partition a set of $n$ objects into $k$ non-empty subsets. In Mathematica, this is implemented as ...
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Sum of Multinomial Coefficients

Basically I want to write a function to compute the following sum $f(m,L):=\sum_{0\leq k_1,\cdots, k_n\leq m} \binom{m}{k_1,k_2,\cdots k_n}$ and $supp(k)=L \subseteq \left \{ 1,...,n \right \}$ I ...
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How to change a value within a list of lists?

I essentially have two questions, both are related. 1) How do I change a value within a list of lists (I provided a example problem)? 2) Why does my code not work? I have a list which was created ...
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Passing large list by reference

I have the following problem: I would like to control evaluation of a variable that points to a list. For example, frequently in the code I have functions of the form that are supposed to work on ...
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Strange behaviour of variables in Table

I'm trying to work with some vectors and have run into a strange problem. An obvious way to define a difference of two vectors would be dif[x_,y_] := x-y I ...
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Listable compiled function using Map

I'm trying to minimize the computation time of problem which is too long to post. I use compilein order to gain some speed. To increase speed I would like to use ...
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Counting the population of integers

Suppose that myData is a list of sublists. Each sublist has a length of one or greater and contains any number of replicates of the integers 1, 2, 3, and 4. I ...
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Finding an index with certain conditions

EDIT: I need to find out an index i which depends on certain conditions and I'm not able to implement it. I have a list (time points) $t_i$ and two constants $a,c$ ...
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get while loop output into a list [duplicate]

I would like to get the output from this while loop and use it as a list so I can count the frequency of the various tuples.. ...
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Converting a list of replacement rules into a list of real values [duplicate]

The following command outputs a list of replacement rules. ...

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