# All Questions

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### Transition between graphs

I want to visually demonstrate the manipulations made to a graph. For instance, I have a graph g where using the command ...
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### Different results for MaximumLikelihood depending on method?

When I used this command: ...
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### Nonsense Data with Wolfram Alpha + Mathematica?

I am trying to learn how to interface with WolframAlpha. When I try using the Mathematica interface I get nonsensical data. I don't know if this is a bug or if I'm doing it wrong. My goal is to ...
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### Showing a forest with root of the trees on the top

I have a Graph object that contains a forest with directed trees. I want to draw the forest such that the root of the trees are on the top and the leaves are on the bottom. If I use the following line ...
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### Help find a bright object on Mars!

In today's news, scientists found a bright object on one of Curiosity's photos (it's near the bottom of the picture below). It's a bit tricky to find - I actually spent quite some time staring at the ...
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### Setting the context automatically based on section

Suppose I have a task that keeps things organized using contexts, so: ...
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### Defining a user defined function in DynamicModule

How can I define a user defined function within DynamicModule? For example, if h[x_] := x^2 I want to find ...
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### Map w/ multiple arguments [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I use Map for a function with two arguments? If I have a function: F[x_,y_,z_]:=x*y*z and I want to call it with several ...
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### Maximum tuple value

Is there a simple way to make a maximum tuple value (similar to python)? For example, in python max([ (1,2), (1,3), (3,1), (4,0) ]) returns ...
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### Get polynomial interpolation formula

I'm attempting to get a polynomial interpolation formula out of Mathematica but I am absolutely lost. I stared out using ...
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### Determining the RGB values of the default plot color

In Mathematica 7, the default plot color is a purple-like color (although I think it is not Purple). Is it possible to use Mathematica to determine the RGB color ...
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### Adjusting the legend colors to match that in MatrixPlot

I am trying to show the legend with a ColorData for a discrete Fourier transform coefficient table. Here's a sample data table: ...
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### Plot columns of table if some condition is fulfilled

I have a table with data, for example MT = {{1, 80.3, 1, 4, 68}, {2, 80.5, 1, 5.5, 102}, {3, 80.0, 0, 4.2, 78}, {4, 80.4, 0, 3, 17}, {5, 80.2, 1, 5, 180}}; ...
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### Lesser and greater symbols in the axeslabels

I need a plot with $\Gamma^<$ as axeslabel using: AxesLabel -> { $\Gamma^<$} But I get an error. AxesLabel -> { $\Gamma^{a<b}$} works though. I think I've to tell mathematica that ...
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### Executing Maple Code Inside Mathematica

Is it possible to create a C++ program using MathLink that will invoke the Maple kernel and execute a very basic Maple command using OpenMaple? I'm envisioning the following: ...
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### How to get the associated popup menu?

I have threePopupMenu and they work in such a way that second PopupMenu value depends on the value selected by the first ...
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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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### Factor out invariant code from Plot

Given a simple Gaussian kernel UnscaledKernel[a_, b_, sigma_] := Exp[-(((a - b)/sigma).((a - b)/sigma))/2] and un-normalized smoothing function ...
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### How can I change the style of every newly opened notebook?

I'd like to make Mathematica open a new notebook using the Natural Color template (under the Creative category) by default. Is that possible? If so, how?
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### Data interpolation and ListContourPlot

I am fairly new to Mathematica and I have two quick questions on using it for a Hydrology and Hydrogeology class. One is about data interpolation and interpolating without any data defined in an area. ...
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### Export to Excel gives error for large lists

This is my data mwedata.dat I do this: ...
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### Poisson solver using Mathematica

I am looking for some help with a Poisson solver I am writing in Mathematica. The code is quite long with Arrays plugged in, so the full details can be found at http://pastebin.com/uSrSDcW6 I am ...
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### Will Mathematica install and run on Raspberry Pi computer?

My club is considering buying a Raspberry Pi computer for tinkering. Can Mathematica be installed on and ran from it?
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### Plotting multivalued function using ParametricPlot

I'm having a bit of trouble making a ParametricPlot from two curves. I defined two functions p and g as: ...
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### WolframAlpha queries unevaluated despite internet connectivity?

WolframAlpha is a built-in symbol in MMA8, yet expressions with WolframAlpha and the equal sign operator remains unevaluated ...
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### 1D Euler Equations

Is it possible to accurately solve the 1D Euler equations in Mathematica using NDSolve? For example, let us consider the problem given here: http://www.csun.edu/~jb715473/examples/euler1d.htm Using ...
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### Scaling edge thicknesses

UPDATE There may be some confusion as to the specification of the problem. kguler's answer doesn't really answer the question. I'll try to elaborate a bit at the bottom of the post. One problem ...
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### Simpler way to fill date gaps with zero values

One basic problem when working with data like sales and dates is the case where you dont't have sales in all days, so you have to fill it to take information as average or to make a plot. See this toy ...
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### Implementing a LineStyleFunction for line plots

I have data in the form: {{0, 3, 4}, {1, 3, -1}, {2, 4, -1}, ...} and I would like to implement something similar to ColorFunction for the style of a line. ...
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### Eigenvalue / Eigenvector Calculation

I'm currently trying to compute the three smallest eigenvectors for a 34 by 34 matrix. While I was expecting this to take some time, Mathematica has been running for the past 3 hours, which seems ...
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### How to find circular objects in an image?

How could I use morphological processing to find circular objects in an image? More specifically, I need to detect road signs. I need to get the "80 speed limit" sign from this image:
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### Unexpected results from NDSolve

I am trying to solve a stiff reaction diffusion system with NDSolve. However, it does not produce the expected results. My problem is a spherical cell with 5 ...
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### MovingAverage[] and Fit[] with data containing DateLists

I have data which has the following appearance: data = {{DateList, Real}, ..., {DateList, Real}} It's easy to visualize the data by using ...
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### How to plot function & integral with vector variable? [closed]

I want to plot functions & integrals with vector variable the present in this paper. For example the equation (5) at p. 3: I want to plot a chart like figure 5, i.e. the $x$-axis is the angle ...
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### Forcing efficient numerical arrays

I encounter strange behaviour of Mathematica when evaluating multi-dimensional arrays of double-precision data. Mathematica can express large arrays of machine-precision numbers using a specialized ...
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### Why is AstronomicalData so slow?

I'm having trouble getting some pretty simple functions using AstronomicalData to perform at anywhere near the speed I need them to. For example, I have many ...
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### How do I get rid of a “jump” in my plot?

How can I prevent plotting functions from "connecting" inside a plot points that should "wrap around" outside the plot? For example, how do I eliminate the horizontal lines running across the ...
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### Asymptotic Rate of Growth

How can I calculate the Asymptotic Rate of growth of a function, for instance like: $X^3 - X^2 - X -1$ EDIT: For instance, as you can see in this graph, after the 1200 the function approximates to ...
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### saving Manipulate data inside a notebook

I want to send a few Manipulate Plots and regular plots to my advisor in a notebook. I ...
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### How to implement hive plot for graphs in Mathematica?

I'm trying to implement a version of the hive plot advocated in [Kryzywinski, et al., 2012]. There are many examples of such graphs on the author's webpage. It would be good enough for me to have ...
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### Customizing FrameTicks in DistributionChart

So I have been fighting with this for a while. I'm trying to get custom frame ticks on both the left and right side of a DistributionChart. It's not going very ...
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I was creating some custom notations using the Notation package and it works fine. I put it in my default personal package, and it loads fine on Mathematica's startup. To make it complete I need just ...
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### Easy way to export Graphics3D as triangles with VertexNormals?

I would like to export an arbitrary Graphics3D object as a text file containing: list of vertices vertex normals triangle faces ...
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### How can I connect to a remote machine?

My friend and I are trying to set up remote kernels. He has a server at home running 1 kernel off of a Linux-based server. We're both on 8.0. I manually set ...
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### How to play with Facebook data inside Mathematica?

I saw this post from Wolfram here and I would like to know how to import facebook data into Mathematica.
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### Launching remote kernels - will it help RAM needs?

Given the exasperating RAM needs of my Mathematica program, I contemplated launching remote kernels to run my Mathematica script. This is a two part question: Part 1 If I launch a remote kernel(s), ...