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Logarithmic scale in the legend of a ListContourPlot

Is there a way to use a logarithmic scale in the colour legend of a ListContourPlot? The contours can be logged by taking the ...
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How can I superimpose points or disks on an image at specified coordinates?

I have a TIFF image of 640 x 640 pixels, over which I would like to plot a list of points or disks of small radius. I have been testing different alternatives and I found ImageCompose command. ...
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Combining 3 graphics of different coordinate systems

I have 3 graphics in different coordinate systems and I want to join them in as in the following figure. This is just a sample figure, not the real one. My functions are as follows. ...
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I have been trying to solve this problem, it worked slow. I know there is a efficiently way. How do I get it? The following is my code: ...
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Changing the number of locators with SetterBar

Typically when adding locators I would use a button i.e. something along the lines ...
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Filling for ListPolarPlot

I want to use Filling for ListPolarPlot in such a way that the points in the list are joined to the origin with a line colored ...
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While-Loop Linear Projection

I'm would like to do a linear progression for a recursive relation of a consumption function. Combining my program skills and my sparse knowledge of mathematica, I was thinking about doing it in a ...
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Best Practice to write ::usage for own package functions

I'm writing an own package with Mathematica, that I would like to make available for others. In order to do that (and for my own usage of the package), I would like to write ...
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Open and search Documentation-Center

In notebooks you can press F1 (or Shift+F1 for a new window) to: open the help page of the marked Symbol or the Symbol under ...
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Simulating Theatre puzzle

I have been trying to simulate the process of the theatre puzzle from the Joy of X (Strogatz). The puzzle, and some relevant material are here. My simplistic coding for this process follows: ...
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Non solutions returned by NSolve. And why does it return both phi and Cos[phi]?

Similarly to this thread NSolve gives additional solutions that don't satisfy the equations! NSolve returns "spurious" solutions, even increasing the working precision ...
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How do I obtain an intersection of two or more list of lists conditioned on the first element of each sub-list?

Given two lists like list1 = {{1, 1}, {2, 4}, {3, 9}, {4, 16}}; list2 = {{2, 6}, {3, 9}, {4, 12}, {5, 15}}; I would like to produce an output like ...
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Are Mathematica 9 units really slow?

This generates 75 unitized pairs for a plot that displays physical units: ...
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FindRoot - Speed and errors

I am using FindRoot[] to solve a complicated equation. It seems I get the correct answer even though I get errors about an ...
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Find all roots of an interpolating function (solution to a differential equation)

I'm trying to find all the roots of the solution to a differential equation. Using NSolve or Reduce I don't get the roots, so I'm using an iterative method which I found in physicsforums.com. This ...
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How to partition a list and leave in the last sublist which is of different length? [duplicate]

How to partition a list and leave in the last sublist which is of different length? In[75]:= Partition[{1,2,3,4,5},2] Out[75]= {{1,2},{3,4}} I want it to be ...
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Filter list with different list in it

I have a list like: {{{4, 14}, 1}, {{4, 15}, 1}, {{4, 16}, 1}, {{4, 17}, 1}, {{4, 18}, 1}, {{4, 14}, 3}, {4,15}, {{4, 16}, 2},{4,18}} Now I want to ...
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Solving Integrals

Here's a problem that I don't understand. f[x_] := Exp[Cos[3*x]] g[x_] := (1/3)*x^3 - x^2 + 2 When I try to find the limit: ...
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RegionPlot3D in cylindrical or spherical coordinates?

RegionPlot3D is awesome. Unfortunately, it appears to work only for Cartesian coordinates. While there are ways to draw surfaces in spherical or cylindrical coordinates, I can't find a way to draw ...
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How can I convert a complex number a+b I to the exponent form A Exp(I phi)?

When I have an expression such as: (1/4 + I/4) ((1 - 2 I) x + Sqrt[3] y) it is hard to get an intuition of the number. So I want to convert it to the complex ...
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How to draw a great circle on a sphere?

I apologize for the text description, but new users are not allowed to post images. I want to draw a circle that cuts through the center of a sphere and has an inclination of 15 degrees with the ...
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Different behaviour of ValueQ inside and outside of a loop

I need to store a rather big number of variables and I tried to do that by storing each variable as Z[n] with varying n. I guess this was not my best idea. The first problem I encountered is when I ...
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I have a data file with triplets. The first two numbers indicate the x and y position, while the third one is the log10 value of a particular indicator. I want to create a 2D plot in which the ...
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How to prepare data for ListVectorPlot[]?

I was trying to plot a few velocity vectors measured at given points. However I am unable to do this with ListVectorPlot[] function. I get error each time I try to ...
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user defined functions, how to save them for future use?

I need certain user defined functions over and over. I was wondering how can I define and where and how to save them such that each time I start a notebook, these functions are available and need not ...
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How to make a pattern to change x^(2/y) to (x^2)^(1/y) for any x and y?

This might have been asked before. Please let me know if it is. I was looking at an interesting Mathematica question in students forum and trying to solve it, and a chance to learn more about ...
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Loops and subroutines [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Alternatives to procedural loops and iterating over lists in Mathematica I am new to Mathematica and not familiar with functional programming. In particular, I have no ...
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Tailoring RegionPlot3D with PlotPoints?

This seemingly tame solid gives Mathematica (v9) a bit of a workout if you want to generate a good picture: ...
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Sales forecast using SARIMAProcess and time-series data

I would like to ask for help in how to use the new Mathematica 9 time series functions to make some sales forecast. For example, for one of our stores, I have this data set with 35 points, from ...
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Why cant Mathematica solve this equation? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Can Reduce *really* not solve for x here? Why cant Mathematica solve this equation? ...
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How to generate a picture like this?

How to generate a picture like this? I'd like the surface of the manifold to randomly distort.
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How to extract Solve results as variables [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Assign the results from a Solve to variable(s) In the following example: ...
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how to differentiate formally?

I have been wrapping my head around this for a while now and I have not found a solution so far. I want to work with an arbitrary number of variables in mathematica and use some built in functions. ...
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Iterative Function Mapping [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to nest my own “times” function to get powers What I want to do is something like : Sin[...Sin[Sin[Sin[Sin[x]]]]] Basically, ...
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Draw from HistogramDistribution with ParallelTable

I wanted to check something, but ran into troubles using HistogramDistribution in combination with ParallelTable. The code does the following: Compute a HistogramDistribution of some sample and use ...
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Making the TableForm output into two columns

I have a program that calculates Christoffel symbols for a given metric, and the output I'm getting now is such that I have every calculated symbol in one column like this: I'd like that I could ...
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Subscript and Part: What's going on in this example?

Example I came across the following simple example from A Beginner's Guide to Mathematica, by McMahon and Topa, which I believe was written circa version 5.2. (FWIW, I'm using v9.) ...
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Remove annoying Conjugate

Here is an expression ...
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Extracting box coordinates [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Dimensions of the results of Text[] within Graphics[] In writing the following code, I had to figure out what values to give d by trial and error. Is there a way to ...
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How can I express an algebraic expression as a product?

I have a simply expression that I can see that I can express as a product. ...
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Symbolic calculation

Is there any software where this kind of symbolic calculation is possible? s = 0 for i = 1 to m j = 2 i + a - t if (j > 0) s = s + a I want s as a ...
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Evaluating a function on permutations of its arguments

Say I have a function "temp" of $n+1$ variables, $y,z1,z2,z3,...,zn$. I want to test if my function has certain symmetries like swapping $y$ with square of any $z$, swapping any two of the zs, ...
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Push-pin Art – Convert image to R-Y-B-W-Blk color space

After seeing an example of what is called “Push-pin Art”, I assumed that Mathematica would be able to handle the kind of image processing required to convert an image to this format. I am not well ...
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Write-protect documentation for self-written Add-on package

My package works fine so far, and now I want to add some documentation. I have put a file in ...
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Force Plot Area size to be equal excluding axes

I have two plots, both with the exact same formatting (frame, text style, etc.). One of them has 2-digit values for the y axes, the other has scientific notation because the value are large. In ...
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Bar chart labels disappear when PlotRange is used

I have used Placed[Before] to place labels on the labels before the bars, but when I specify a plot range, the labels disappear. I need a solution wherein I can use ...
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Is there a Mathematica equivalent to MATLAB's logspace? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I get exactly 5 logarithmic divisions of an interval? I want to use Table to generate a list of items, but want the indices ...
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Lists of coefficients of derivatives

I want to extract two separate lists of coefficients of derivatives. If I have, for example, ...