# All Questions

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### Finding x when sin(x) = -.758 [closed]

I'm not understanding how to find all the angles for when sin(x) is equated to a negative decimal can someone explain to me how to find it..? So far I came up with 49.288 degrees, and 229.288 degree. ...
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### Inconsistent image sizing with Grid and Row?

Can anyone explain why Row and Grid don't size the image correctly and consistently to 300 ...
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### How to create a Disk with smoothly changing coloring?

I want to have a disk. But this disk shouldn't have a fixed color; instead, I'd like it's color to fade smoothly. Until now, I came up with two ideas how to achieve this. Idea #1: ...
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### How to sample only odd numbers in the domain of a table for list plot [closed]

The following code samples $k$ points around a circle at integer values starting from $0$: ListPlot[Table[{2 Sin[(2*y/x)*π*n] , 2 Cos[(2*y/x)*π*n}], {n, 0, k}] I ...
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### How to Fold (FoldList) this in a more compact (efficient) way?

Example code: x = Table[something[i], {i, 5}] Table[Fold[f1[#1, f2[#2, a], a] &, x[[i]], {c1, c2, c3}], {i, Length[x]}] This above is just an example. I ...
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### Incorrect use of Scaled causes crash

Bug introduced in 8.0 and fixed in 10.1.0 While playing with Scaled, I made a syntax error which caused a crash instead of an error message ... Do you get the ...
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### Purpose of VertexWeight

I am trying to partition a graph into partitions of equal weight (on the vertex). I looked at the documentation, and found VertexWeight, which seems to attach a weight to a vertex. In the details, ...
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### How to rearrange structure and type of an imported dataset?

I have a bigger dataset imported from Excel. Its elements have a form of {time, data}. Day is irrelevant and I would like to have the time in decimal form e.g. 10:30 is 10.5 ...
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### Keeping Font Relative Size to Object/Graphics/Plot Object upon Resize

I want to keep the text generated within a graph/plot to remain the same relative to an element (a disk of size 0.2) of the image upon resize, not the image itself, while maintaining the original ...
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### GeoGraphics: problem with GeoPosition in shifted projections

Bug introduced in 10.0.0 and persisting through 10.4.1 A remark about the answer: My work around is only nice for simple cases with points. More general should include proper polygons splitting on ...
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### Histogram 3D: use different bin width in two directions

I'm trying to plot an histogram of a set of data, I would like to use a bin of different width in x and y direction. I've tried using the following two codes: ...
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### Modular arithmetic in Mathematica? [closed]

I want to implement something like 1 + 1 = 0; i.e., simple modular arithmetic in Mathematica. This seems like it should be a really easy built-in option, but I can'...
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### Why does Mathematica remember print settings?

Mathematica has a strange behavior with respect to printing and saving to PDF. It remembers the print settings, such as page range and number of copies along with the file. So if I print 50 copies ...
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### SemanticImport unable to properly read an Excel file with accented letters

Apparently SemanticImport fails to properly import Excel files when accented letters are present in the first (header) row. I'm using Excel 2013 on Windows 8.1 x64 ...
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### Numerical integration: complicated 2D integral seems to be poorly estimated

In the course of some physics research I've been working on, a very annoying integral has appeared that I'm having difficulty evaluating numerically. Any help you could offer would be greatly ...
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### Permanently rounding numbers/values to a given number of significant figures

I am searching for a simple way of rounding and setting an input to a desired number of significant figures. There are a vast number of posts that discuss similar problems, but none address this issue....
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### Is there a notebook to create entries for OEIS?

Is there a notebook to create entries for OEIS? I seem to recall something like this a few years ago, but I haven't been able to find one. It might be from MathWorld. Any suggestions? Edit If I had ...
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### Hiding a Manipulate slider

I want to generate a different random initial condition for rule 110 using a Button for Manipulate, not a slider. How can I make the slider invisible here? I tried specifying ...

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