# All Questions

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### RandomVariate form a Specific Distribution with Restrictions

There are a lot of questions about generating random numbers form both uni-variate and bi-variate distributions. Mathematica has a lot of built in distributions for that purpose. However, I could not ...
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### DateList does not output the correct time, but Date does

I noticed a strange thing when trying the new astronomical data functions in Mathematica 10 on my Raspberry Pi. The Sunrise and ...
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### Simple recursive function?

I'm new in Mathematica and need some help. I'm trying to make a recursive function but I'm not sure how to iterate through more than one item. To be more clear, take this pseudo code for example: ...
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### Why is C-compiled (but not WVM-compiled) code so slow in Manipulate?

Here is a small section of code from this SE question which computes the real part of the dilogarithm (the upper limit of the sum is increased for demonstration purposes): ...
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### A bug fix to mathematica 10.0.1.0

There is a bug in the Wolfram Symbolic Transfer Protocol Development in C (Windows). I described it in the next answer by myself, from which I summarize: One cannot successfully compile the ...
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### Sampling phase space uniformly for a given energy

For example, for the 1D harmonic oscillator, the energy is given by: $$E = \frac{1}{2 m} p^2 + \frac{m \omega^2}{2} x^2$$ where x is position and p is the momentum. I would like to sample phase ...
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I would like to suppress the argument [0, 0, 0, 0] of K in the output of ...
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### Mathematica 10 ListPointPlot3D PlotTheme bug?

I am using Mathematica 10 to generate a 3D point plot of a crystal lattice structure. I wanted to set the PlotTheme to ...
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### The front end encountered an error while processing a “NotebookPredictions” packet

I occasionally get the error The front end encountered an error while processing a "NotebookPredictions" packet. I cannot find any documentation for this error message online. It does not ...
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### FullSimplify wont simplify to expression with lower SimplifyCount

I have been trying without success to get FullSimplify to work on some trigonometric expressions. It refuses to convert them to forms that are clearly much ...
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### pattern matching and applying a function, not working as expected [duplicate]

Consider the following code G[x, y] /. a_[b__] -> Total[a @@@ Permutations[List[b]]] I expect it to give G[x, y]+G[y,x] ...
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### Color Transfer from colored image into grayscale image

At first I did this where image is a grayscale image and example is a colored image ...
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### Manipulate plot [duplicate]

How can one do this: ...
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### How can I transfer colors from first image into second image? [duplicate]

How can I transfer colors from first image into second image, where every object from the first image should take the same object's color from first image. This images are only an example. this is ...
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### Optimizing alphametrics code

First of all, thank you all in this great community. I have been reading a lot of threads about Mathematica optimization learning things like using Compile ...
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### A reliable CPU timer [on hold]

I was evaluating a sample program and at the end evaluated TimeUsed. When I ran the program for the first time TimeUsed was ...
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### K-means clustering

In MATLAB, there is a command kmeans() that divides an array into $k$ clusters and calculates the centroid of each cluster. Is there any command in Mathematica to ...
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### How do I put single velocity and get rid of initial and final velocity? [duplicate]

I want to get rid of terminal and final velocity. I only want one velocity as a whole in the code below.How do i get that?Also could you please tell the difference of using "ParametricPlot" vs "Plot" ...
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### Listing all cubic order derivatives of a function of 4 variables

What would be the best way to list/print all cubic order derivatives of a function of 4 variables? I was thinking about iterating Derivative[i,j,k,l][func][0,0,0,0] ...
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### ReplacePart equivalent for Associations

I have a fairly complicated Association. I wish to use/create a function such as ReplacePart to operate on certain Keys within this multi-level Association. Here's ...
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### How can I use the command Minimize of this trigonometric function? [duplicate]

I want to find the minimum of the function $\sin^6 x + \cos^6 x$. I tried Minimize[{Sin[x]^6 + Cos[x]^6, 0 <= x <= 2 Pi}, x] I got {Cos[2 ArcTan[1 - ...
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### Why does this function inside FindRoot fail to evaluate?

Can someone help me understand why function mu found below does not execute when everything before it seems ok. ...
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### How to reflect the entries of a square matrix about its anti-diagonal?

I need help with writing the mathematica code to reflect the entries of a square matrix about its anti-diagonal. I know to do it about the main diagonal using ...
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### plot both parts of a two-sheeted hyperboloid [on hold]

Is it possible to plot both parts of a two-sheeted hyperboloid in one input with the following parametrization, meaning that the z-component would be plus minus ...
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### Animate skips frames and hard to control speed.

I browsed similar questions related to Animate jerkiness like here, but haven't found the right options to control animation rate while also displaying all frames: ...
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### Help with building matrices

I am a complete beginner in Mathematica and I have a small problem. I have this three matrices (A,B and C) and with them I have to build larger matrix M which looks like this. What would be the ...
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### representation of custom deformation on a meshgrid

I am trying to represent 2D deformations on a rectangular grid. In Mathematica 10, there is a method to solve the elastic differential equations and then represent the deformation as presented here: ...
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### How can I make an animation with data points imported from txt file using ListAnimate/ListPointPlot3D? [on hold]

I want to make an animation about a ball moving. I do not have an equation for the trajectory, but only spatial coordinates in three dimensions. For example, (x , y , ...
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### Function WeatherData fails

If I use WeatherData[] only some of my requests work. For example if I use WeatherData[{"Chicago", 3}] I get the correct output: ...
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### Unable to compute the area of region

For a set of data: ...
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### Disable templates for user defined functions with usages

It appears that fixing the template system is low on Wolfram Research's priority list. For my package, I have defined Usage info for my functions involving lots of ...
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### Extracting ragged array from an image

I have a list of points, which represent positions of peaks in an image. The nature of the image itself shouldn't matter, as I already have the peak positions. As a simple example, consider the ...
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### Derivation: How do I derivate this [migrated]

How do I deveriate the following expression? The problem I have is the n in d^n. This expression is part of a bigger task of mine : Show via complete induktion that is true for all n from ...
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### Using If statement for more than two cases [on hold]

I want to use the If statement for three different scenario. Can someone help me out? Pls also indicate if there is a better function to do that. This is an example ...
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### Help with Multivariate ProbabilityDistribution

I wish to obtain numbers from ...
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### Maximization of n-variable and n-constraint in matrix form

I am trying to do some maximization using matrix algebra: very simple one is with n = 3 as the following: ...
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### How to add named characters to Mathematica 10?

It appears that native support for the Klingon alphabet has been removed from version 10: \[KlingonA] Syntax::tsntxi: "\"!(\[ KlingonA])\" is incomplete; more ...
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### Combinatorial arrangements notation [migrated]

I have a program that executes 2 kinds of operation with bytes and bits sets: BYTE OPERATION related to BIT POSITION and BIT OPERATION related to BIT POSITION The first operation provides a kind of ...
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### What is the difference between Array and Table?

I cannot understand the difference between Array command and Table. I can reproduce the example in ...
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### Incorporating the minimum and maximum of the function in a Dynamic plot

I'm working on my project for class and it's supposed to be a graph that can take functions from the user and display it along with finding the max and min of the graph. But I just don't know how to ...
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### Solving a time-dependent Schroedinger equation

I want to solve the time-dependent Schroedinger equation: $$i\partial_t \psi(t) = H(t)\psi(t)$$ for matrix, time-dependent $H(t)$ and vector $\psi$. What is an efficient way of doing this so ...
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### Change default output font globally

I'd like to change my default output font to "Helvetica Neue" in version 10. The following shows the only thing I have found in Option Inspector, which would ...
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### Bug in parallel computing

The following is a simplified example. We construct a library function f and another library function g, in which the library function f is called. ...
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### I want to get some inputs from user [on hold]

I'm new to mathematica. i have a small project: get an equation , a number n, a number x and a number y and a number h, then using euler formula calculate nTh iteration ... My code is : ...
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### Generate list of strings from a list of assigned variables

How do I generate a list of strings from a list of assigned variables? Eg. Convert ...
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### How to ensure efficient order of operations for rules, slots, substitutions?

I need to calculate several functionals Q[[t]] of a pdf f[x]. ...
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### How to use slots and patterns to reduce repetitive calculation?

This is kind of complicated... How can we make MMa calculate values of a function before doing multiple pattern or slot substitutions? Answers to similar questions didn't cover the case where the ...
I have the following parametric equation $$x^2-a=0$$ where $a$ is a given parameter. I would like to plot the nonnegative real root ($\sqrt{a}$) using NSolve as $a$ varies from $0$ to $1$. Can ...