# All Questions

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### Unique[] in RHS of rule

I have a function, explicit that takes dot product of two symbols, and replaces it with repeated dummy indices generated by ...
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### Graphing the amount of time a function takes

I know I can find out the amount of time a function takes to run like this: In:= function1[100] //Timing Out:= {0.043334, Null} How can I graph this over a set ...
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### A deterministic function to generate a random number

Using Mathematica, I need to define a function of one integer variable that generates the same real number in the range 0 to 1, if it is called with the same argument, but gives a different real ...
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### Plotting with Units

I'm trying to get Mathematica to plot with units, but I'm having some trouble. Below is a minimal example of trying to plot y = x, where ...
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### Does pass-by-value affect the performance of function calls?

I only have a little coding experience in C, and I remember I was told that pass by reference is more efficient than pass by value since the parameters don't need to be copied. Since there is no pass ...
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### OpenCL Dot Product

I have to calculate billions of dot products. My current implementation uses Compile to generate C code and it's very fast (10s ...
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### Weird resampling when I try to export an Image

Mathematica language newbie here. I wrote the following code to quantize an image: ...
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### Contour Plot in Cylindrical Coordinates

I'm trying to render an equation in the cylindrical coordinates, and I used the following codes: ...
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### Strange function definition result [duplicate]

I'm relatively new to Mathematica, and I'm trying to define a function f(k) that would do the following: For any positive integer $k$, a finite sequence $a_i$ of fractions $\frac{x_i}{y_i}$ is ...
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### How can I make points “glow”?

I have a set of points in the plane which I would like to have "glow". I would like for each point to glow individually and I would also like some increase in the intensity corresponding to an ...
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### Problem with large values in ParametricPlot

I've got a question quite similar to No 18163:Problem with high parameter values in ParametricPlot, but the solution of that problem did not work for me. So I hope you may have another tip. I want to ...
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### FindInstance returns Indeterminate in version 9, but not in 8

Here is a trivial system of equations in three unknowns for which FindInstance obtains a solution: ...
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### Mathematica color schemes for the colorblind

Does Mathematica have a graphics option that makes plots intelligible for people with colorblindness?
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### Notation not recursive enough?

My notation is not recursing enough. For example, Notation[W[a_ | b_] ⟹ foo[a_, b_]/foo[b_]] Notation[W[a__, b_ | c_] ⟹ W[a__ | c_]W[b_ | c_]] Then ...
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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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### Helio chart for canonical correlation

I'm trying to create a chart usually called "Helio chart". It's a chart type very suited for canonical correlation analysis involving several dependent and independent variables. However, it is a ...
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### Copy last/second last (etc.) input from history into current cell

I like to use terminals (e.g. gnome-terminal) where you can use the up key to copy the last command into the current input 'field'. For example, to repeat the last ...
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### How can I create a table of sliders?

I'm trying to do the following: I have a table: w = Table[ToExpression[ToString[h] <> ToString[i]], {i, 1, Length[c]}] This table is suposed to generate ...
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### Controlling margin around PlotLegends

Here's my code: ...
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### How to completely reinstall Wolfram Workbench on linux

I've messed up my Ubuntu install, I've changed some pathnames I shouldn't have (don't know which ones exactly though), and after that Wolfram Workbench was not launching anymore. I uninstalled it by ...
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### Where to find a summary for Q functions? [duplicate]

Is there a summary for all Function like NumberQ, LetterQ and so forth? data=123; IntegerQ[data] True
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### What is the average of rolling two dice and only taking the value of the higher dice roll?

I am referencing to this question on mathunderflow: What is the average of rolling two dice and only taking the value of the higher dice roll? Now I tried: ...
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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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### Placing bar chart labels on the upper and lower frame axes

In the bar chart (with negative values) ...
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### Solving and plotting ODEs while varying one of the initial conditions

How can I vary an initial condition in the numerical solution of a system of ODEs and then make a 3D plot of the solution space with that condition as one of the variables. ...
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### How can I get all the results from a Wolfram | Alpha query?

When I query Wolfram | Alpha with "city in orange county, california", it returns the first four results with a note that there are "42 total". I can then hit the "more" button until all 42 are ...
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### Labels for each curve on a multi-curve plot using an efficient method(without writing a large code) [duplicate]

I have a question on plot labeling in Mathematica. I have y = 4 x / L + 2 where L = {10, 20, 30, 40} I want to draw a ...
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### How can I make the Cartesian product of a list with itself? [duplicate]

I'm trying to build the table {{1, 1}, {1, 2}, {2, 1}, {2, 2}} given the list {1, 2} I can do it like this ...
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### Kelvin per Kelvin Difference

I'm trying to use Mathematica units more often, but I've run into the following problem: ...
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I am trying a read a file that's arranged such that there's alternating set of rows containing data that I don't need and data that I need. So for my case the first n lines in the files are useless to ...
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### Calculating a minimum bounding box for a set of 3-space coordinates / spheres

I have a set of 3-space coordinates for the atoms of a molecule (I could also transform them into spheres with radii corresponding to the atoms they represent). I would like to place this molecule ...
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### Draw only the top of the boundary of a function in Plot3d

So currently I have via combining 3 Plot3D's in a show. My question is how can I make it so that the ONLY portion of that border highlighted green, is the "curving portion" in the xy plane, rather ...
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### Importing a matrix from a text file

I have a $4 \times N$ matrix in a .txt file of the form: -17.071 137.567 16.554 0.65 -16.873 136.138 16.934 0.7 -15.397 135.738 16.894 0.7 -14.7 135.982 15.9 0.6 ...
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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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### Defining a function by pieces using list of interpolated functions in order to use FindRoot

I have two lists with the interpolated functions ...
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### Enforcing correct variable bindings and avoiding renamings for conflicting variables in nested scoping constructs

Using global variables the following turns an "expression" into a Function: expr = 2 x; Function[x, Evaluate[expr]] Of course ...
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### Running .NET/Link on Mono (On MacOS or any UNIX or Linux Distro)

Has anyone have any luck running .NET/Link on Mono? When I run .NET/Link to call Mathematica from within a Mono program, this is the error message I receive. ...
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### How to find derivative of a numerical solution, where precision is ambiguous?

I am trying to take the derivative of a numerical solution. I am concerned that the way I'm doing this may be problematic due to numerical error; I think there must be a better way but I'm not very ...
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### How do I create a matrix of functions?

I'm trying to create a matrix in which the elements are functions of two variables, but I can't figure out how to do it. Is it possible? The only way I could figure out is to define the matrix in ...
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### Expression for the real 7/3 power

I need an expression for the real 7/3 power of a real-valued function, i.e., a reformulation of f[x_] := g[x]^(7/3) that works for negative values of ...
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### Variable name string to expression

I'm not sure how to name this problem appropriately. But anyway. I have, say, three variables (arrays in my case), which I call: A1, A2, A3 I would like to ...
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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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### Executing C programs within mathematica [duplicate]

I have a requirement for executing a C program within Mathematica. The user will provide the inputs and the expected results on a front end. Mathematica runs the C file, obtains the result for the ...
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### Variant of the cutting-stock problem in Mathematica

I'm pretty new to Mathematica and am trying to learn to solve problems in a functional way. The problem I was solving was to list the ways in which I could sum elements from a list (with repetitions), ...
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### Copy and pasted graphics are fuzzy

I have a function that creates a 2D line with filling to the axis. When I copy this graphic into word it is very fuzzy, so much so that the numbers and text are almost unreadable, not to mention the ...
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### How to remove some elements in a list based on a rule?

I want to deal with the following list. mylist = Table[cof[i] exp[i], {i, 1, n}]; (*n is very larege *) exp[ ] is a function ...
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### Question about using a pattern in ReplacePart

I noticed that "ReplacePart" can use pattern. For example: ReplacePart[{{0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0}}, {i_, i_} -> x] {{x, 0, 0}, {0, x, 0}, {0, 0, x}} So ...
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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.