# All Questions

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### How to set the color of plot legend independent of the plot itself

I have written the code below: ...
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### Simplifying trig expressions containing Sqrt or Abs

The following Maple code can simplify abs(sin(x)) into -sin(x) given the condition ...
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### Is there any simple way to zoom/magnify a selected portion of a plot (like gnuplot or xmgrace)? [duplicate]

Is there any simple way to zoom a particular portion of a plot (similar to what you can do with gnuplot or xmgrace using the magnifier and selecting a region)? Usually I do it by varying the ...
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### Area between Contours in ContourPlot

I feel slightly foolish for asking this because I am so close, but I'm having trouble, so I will anyway. I asked this question two days ago regarding finding the lengths of contours. Now, I'd like to ...
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### Does the VerticalCallout algorithm in PieChart3D work correctly?

In real world usage you often want to use real world labels with long strings (say 15-20 characters) in 3D pie charts. Here is a toy example : ...
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### Does the VerticalCallout algorithm in PieChart work correctly?

This manufactured example is typical of many real world cases where we have thin slices of the pie: ...
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### How to determine three last bindings made to a variable when evaluating an expression?

How can I create a list of bindings made to a certain variable when evaluating an expression? I want to determine three bindings made.
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### Definite Integral, Piecewise, Error

I am trying to evaluate the following: ...
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### How to work with large numbers

How do I browse very large numbers in mathematica, say $10^{{10}^{{10}^{1.414\ldots}}}$? By browse I mean finding the $k$th decimal place before or after the decimal point. Everything I have tried ...
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### Little triangles appearing in a Mathematica region plot with “opacity” saved in a PDF file [duplicate]

I am trying to produce a region plot of many functions, but Mathematica keeps showing me the little triangles when I save it as pdf. I have seen other solutions which fix the problem with PlotStyle-> ...
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### Conjugate of InterpolatingFunction?

From NDSolve, I got this: {{a1 -> InterpolatingFunction[{{0., 40.}}, "<>"]}} What would be a sensible approach to ...
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### Manipulate for Electric Field

I'm kind of new to Mathematica but I'm getting the hang of it slowly. Anyways, I'm trying to do a project on the electric field of two particles so my professor helped me with this code (sorry in ...
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### Find the values of parameters so that the matrix is symmetric positive definite

Good evening , I have a matrix 20x20 in symbolic form. The matrix depends on 5 parameters (a,b,c,d,e). I would like to get the interval of each parameters that ensures that the matrix S is symmetric ...
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### When to use GenerateConditions -> True

Many functions, usuallly those involving integration, take a GenerateConditions option which often defaults to False, or at ...
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### Generating the set of all strings within a fixed edit distance of a initial string?

Provided a starting string initialString, and a particular alphabet of allowed characters {"A","B","C","D","E",...}, how can I ...
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### Loading StatisticsLibrary

I need to use a number of functions from theStatisticsLibrary namespace. Since that is a bit of a mouthful I would like to import it, but I get errors: ...
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### How can I avoid getting the error message Goto::nolabel in my code?

If anyone could suggest a reason why Label[begin] ... Goto[begin] would return Hold[Goto[Begin]], and (better) how can I avoid ...
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### Overlay Rectangle on a ListPlot

I have a ListPlot of 100 data points in the range of 0 and 1. Now I'm trying to find a way to overlay (four) rectangles onto the listplot in 0.25 steps horizontally. Essentially I just have BinLists ...
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### Importing data from excel and assigning a variable to each of its columns

How should I assign variables to the data imported from excel containing 3 columns which are time, mean and standard deviation. I want to perform operations on the three variables to get new ...
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### Ticks don't display on Y-Axis of Histogram when using PlotRange

I have a histogram, if I create it without specifying the PlotRange it works fine and the ticks on the Y-Axis are displayed ...
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### Strategies to find curves on messy data using FindCurvePath

I have a set of data points that correspond to roots of a transcendental equation with respect to a parameter (the abscissa) which, by the properties of the system, define continuous curves (might be ...
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### Variable number of nested variable-range sums

I would like to express the following nested sum in Mathematica: $$S(m,j,N) = \sum_{k_1=m+j-1}^{N-1} f(N,k_1) \sum_{k_2=m+j-2}^{k_1-1} f(k_1,k_2) \cdots \sum_{k_m=j}^{k_{m-1}-1} f(k_{m-1},k_m)$$ ...