# All Questions

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### Are there guidelines for avoiding the unpacking of a packed array?

Packed arrays are very useful because they save memory and generally allow speedier and more efficient calculation times. If a list of data currently stored as a packed array is unpacked, it can slow ...
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### When to use built-in Graph/GraphPlot vs. Combinatorica

What are the pros and cons of using built-in Graph/GraphPlot (and related) types vs. types in the Combinatorica package?
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### Combinatorica Graph from Edge List

Can someone provide an example of a Combinatorica-based graph which uses ShowGraph and Graph and takes in an explicitly defined list of edges (not some auto-generated graph). I have not been able to ...
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### DSolve cannot solve for certain branches of the solution

Update - This has been fixed in 10.0.0 Could somebody please tell me, why I am always getting an error message when trying to run the following code: ...
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### Detecting KeyUp events

Is there a way to detect when a key is released, similar to EventHandler[InputField[], {"KeyDown", "k"} :> Print["k pressed"]] It seems such detection isn't ...
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### How to protect existing MathLink connection from disconnecting

I am developing an application that consists of a Mathematica package and an external Java program. The purpose of the application is to read streamed data from a port and update a variable in the ...
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### How to import all files of a folder at once?

I know how to import one textfile by calling its name filestring = Import["myfile.tex", "Text"]; Then "filestring" is a string with the myfile content. How do ...
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### Why doesn't Evaluate appear to work in this RegionPlot example with MatchQ?

I am trying to plot the region over which a function of two (real) parameters a and b is real-valued, using ...
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### Combining lists

How can I combine list1={{x1,y1},{x2,y2},{x3,y3}} and list2={{x4,y4},{x5,y5}} to ...
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### What do I do when I get an “Iterator does not have appropriate bounds” error?

I used this as input Table[600851475143/i , {i, 1, 600851475143}] but got an error ...
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### How can I plot Intensity values(Z) based on X and Y position. Data stored as 3 columns in CSV file

I have a CSV data file with X position, Y position and corresponding intensity as Z. I ...
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### Conditional expression

How do I evaluate a conditional expression in order to convert the solutions that are in terms of $x$ to a new variable $c$ depending on $x$? The conventional method I have been using with eliminate ...
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### Change the height of a function being plotted

How do I alter the height of any function plot using the Plot function? Mathematica seems to limit the height of the plot up to the range of a function and distort ...
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### Mapping multiple parameters of a function to specific values

I am a little bit confused by the documentation for Apply (@@). I want to define a list of parameters, for instance: ...
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### Is it possible to make a variable wrapped in Dynamic non-dynamic?

If I have a function call wrapped in Dynamic can I make one or more of the parameters in the call non-dynamic? i.e. I would like to make ...
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### Automating Esc [[ Esc formatting?

Is it possible to program the Front End to automatically format double square brackets without having to type Esc[[Esc each time? It's awful to have to type Esc ...
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### Using Mathematica or WebMathematica to develop interactive, crowdsourced timeline visualizations

I aim to develop a series of timeline ZUI visualizations which will display a set of events similar to Wolfram's own Timeline of Computable Knowledge, but that can also handle crowdsourced uploading ...
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### How do I get VertexList to work directly on older graphs defined using rules?

In MMA 8, it seems that sometimes VertexList will work with rule-based graphs without needing GraphUtilities and at other times it won't. Once it starts working, it ...
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### Is it possible to embed the Mathematica editor?

Is it possible to embed a Mathematica window into a .NET application? I mean not just the interop, but actually making the notebook editor window part of a .NET form. Is this possible?
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### CDF file posted in WordPress won't run

I just installed Mathematica 8.0.4.0, which has a CDF Deployment Wizard. This is supposed to make it easy to post a CDF file on a WordPress blog. I tried it, and it indeed was easy; the problem is ...
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### Splitting a list at a particular position

Is it possible to split a list into two lists at a specific position? The main list is for example: data={{xa,ya},{xb,yb},{xc,yc},...,{xz,yz}}. I want to split ...
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### Customize startup

Is there a way to personalize the startup? I want, for example, that mathematica starts Maximized (not slightly-less-than-maximized as it usually does) with a notebook (also maximized) with a zoom of ...
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### How do I access the name of a list in a function?

Background: bar := {1, 1, 1}; foo[var_] := {Hold[var], 2 var} SetAttributes[foo, HoldAll] foo[bar] Result, as expected: ...
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### Coloring Points in a List Plot [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: ListPlot with each point a different color and a legend bar I want to color the points in a list plot using a function of the (x,y) values. I tried this (example with ...
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### Wolfram Workbench - Mathematica Development Alternatives

Are there any alternatives (IDE or other workflow) to Wolfram Workbench for development and debugging? Elaboration: An open source alternative.
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### Generating schedules/timetables in Mathematica

I've always used MS Excel to create my school schedules, and I've always been happy with the results. Is there a similar GUI way to generate schedules/timetables in Mathematica or a third-party ...
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### How to read data file quickly?

I have a tab separated value file with 10 million rows each of which has three tab separated values. The first value is a string, the second an integer, and the third another string. How to read ...
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### How can parts of a list of lists be printed to the nb, at regular interval positions?

I have a large list of lists with the dimensions {441,21,21,3} of which I need to print the x,y,z data from every 21st part up to 441. How can I print the 21x21x3 piece of every 21st part of this ...
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### Finding the position of a specific value in a list

Is it possible to easily find the position of a specific value in a list? For example, if the list is {{x1,y1},{x2,y2},...,{xn,yn}} I would like to know the ...
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### Are these nested Tables necessary?

In exploring this fish population game with my calculus students, I wrote some Mathematica code to search for the sequence of catches that would result in the maximal total population of fish (both in ...
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### Recursion on a moving window

I need to apply some computations to a moving window of $N$ items in a time series and I am struggling with doing recursion and shifting the considered window. To illustrate, please consider the ...
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### Finding a percolation path

I would like to examine percolation on a random lattice. To be exact, I wish to find the minimum length of a 'bond' needed such that the leftmost site can be connected to the rightmost site. Here is ...
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### Using function with multiple definitions in Manipulate

I'm trying to use Manipulate to visually try out different values of lambda in a Box-Cox transformation. I've created a boxcox ...
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### Is there a way to access the (lexically) current colour inside Graphics?

Note that this is not a duplicate of the question over there. That one asks for a given point, while I'm asking about the lexical structure (which, of course, is not directly related to any point in ...
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### Export Plots to $\LaTeX$

What is the quickest and best way to export a plot image from Mathematica to a $\LaTeX$ Editor? Is there something quicker than exporting it to an image and then including it in the $\LaTeX$ document? ...
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### Mathematica Bifurcation

Continuing with the same question I have posted earlier I would like to find the equation of the stable fixed point curve using my graph, i.e. from the curve somehow find the equation for $x=f(x)$. I ...
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### How to plot a curve with border around the line?

This can be useful if the curve is passing over both dark and light backgrounds (like well-done subtitles in movies).
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### Question about collections of custom GUI controls for Mathematica

Background: I have only recently begun programming GUIs in Mathematica, so I have a continuous need for custom controls. I needed a scrollable list control and with the help of Google I found a ...
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### Using Apply inside Compile

In this great answer a compiled version of the Nelder-Mead algorithm is presented. Since it works on arbitrary dimensions (i.e. arbitrary number of arguments), it has to use apply on the objective ...
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### How to avoid conflicts between local variable names and symbolic arguments in Block constructs?

I am using Block inside the definition of some recursive functions. If the Block definitions use short variable names, like ...
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### Plotting the results of iterating a function

This is what I am stuck on f[a_][x_] := x^2 + a; w[a_] := Take[NestList[f[-1.8], 0, 1000], 100] Now I want to evaluate this for different values of the constant ...
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### Mathematica function/package for shuffle permutations

Does anyone knows a way to compute a list of all (p,q)-shuffles in mathematica? For a definition of the shuffle permutations see for example http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/shuffle I'm dreaming of a ...
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### Plot curves different way so that one can see them when printing black and white

I am going to plot for instance: ...
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### Show parameters on graph

I am graphing the 4 PDFs for a distribution for 4 different parameters in the same graph. I want the values of the parameters to be shown in corner of the graph. How do I do this?
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### Iteration of a function

I have a function $f(x)=x^7+k$ I want to iterate $xn+1=g(xn)$, 50 times starting with $x0=1$ and keep the last 10 values I want to assign these values to a function ...
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### Shading between polar graphs

Since PolarPlot doesn't support Filling, what is the best way to shade or fill the a region between two polar curves? For ...
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### Speeding up mathematica by subsitituting numerical values

According to this Wolfram Blog post, one can speed up Mathematica code by substituting numerical values as soon as possible. How does one substitute before the main expression is evaluated? The ...
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### What does the slash-colon symbol do?

I came across a bit of code that uses the syntax /: and I don't know what it does. I can't find its documentation, or maybe I'm just not looking properly. The code ...

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