# All Questions

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### Testing Credit Usage in Wolfram Programming Cloud

I currently have a free WPC account, which I am using for testing purposes. Amongst other things, I want to find out more about how the credit system works, in particular how many credits are used, ...
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### Unique CellID in-between notebooks

Documentation says that CellID is guaranteed to be unique for a given notebook. I've noticed that CellID are fairly high numbers and although probabilistically speaking the odds of coincidence are ...
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### Black line after ImageTrim

as shown in Image correlation I would like to detect the shift between a stack of images. Here are the images: and here the code: ...
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### How do I exclude the vertical line plotted at a discontinuity?

Condsider function = Tan[1 x] + Tan[2 x] Plot[function, {x, 0, 1.5}] It has a strong discontinuity around 0.8. The problem is , if I want to find ...
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### How do I plot a U- form cylinder

I'm really new to Mathematica, trying to learn some things, but I need help trying to plot this kind of cylinder, a U tube like cylinder. Tried to use an example code like this, and then vary some ...
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### How to get a list of all expressions in a notebook matching a certain pattern?

Suppose I have a Mathematica notebook saved to a certain location on disk. Given a pattern I need to get the list of all expressions matching this pattern that appear in input, output or print cells ...
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### Improving the speed of evaluating Table with nested functions

I am a Mathematica novice working with a stack of 1024 x 1024 WatershedComponents (or MorphologicalComponents) label matrices ...
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### Inconsistency of output format in Eigenvalue

I am bothered by the output format of the last two elements of efre. Is there a way to make these two look like the same format as the first two in ...
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### “NotAvailable” and “NotApplicable” data points returned by WeatherData[]

I am trying to use ListVectorPlot in combination with WeatherData and CountryData to show ...
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### Providing a color function for ListPointPlot3D

Is there a way to write ListPointPlot3D expression, so when given a list of points, the the color of the points plotted is a function of the index/element number of ...
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### Converting a nested for loop from MATLAB

In MATLAB I have the following series of nested for loops that update a matrix. (It's not my code, but someone else's that I'm trying to replicate - I don't know ...
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### Deploying to the Cloud for Public Access

Note: Fixed sometime around the 18th of August 2014. Bug present from the release of 10.0.0. until then. I wanted to test how a simple deployed program would appear to a non-mathematica user. I ...
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### Conditions in SparseArray

I got confused by {i_, j_} /; in the following code. I didn't see an explanation in the SparseArray documentation. Can anyone ...
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### Calculate geo location based on distance from other locations

Given a list of entities (or GeoPositions) and their distances from a particular location, how do I find that location's ...
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### Fast method to select matrix elements based on a vector of positions

There is an operation for which I have long wanted to find a better solution. Let: a be a matrix of dimensions $m\times n$ ...
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### eccentric anomaly expansion equation

I try to use this simple algorithm (paper) to calculate the Eccentric Anomaly expansion: ...
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### Partial Differential Equation in Parallel

is there any native way to implement multi-core parallel solving of PDE in Wolfram Mathematica? WM 10 now supports Finite Elements Method, but it is actually useless without parallelization. Usually ...
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### Zero-order interpolation not going fully around

Connected to this question, I want to do a zero-order interpolation of a bunch of datapoints which is periodic. The code I use is as follows: ...
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### TrueQ returning False on true statement

Why does TrueQ return False on the following? TrueQ[Log[2]/Log[8] == 1/3] (* False *) ...
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### How to correctly use PatternTest (?) [duplicate]

This works fine: {3, -5, 2, 7, -6, 3} /. x_ /; x < 0 :> 0 (*{3, 0, 2, 7, 0, 3}*) and this works fine: ...
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### Utility information using FindGeoLocation in Ver.10

It is possible for some commuters to track the location of their bus, train or tram through a personalised GPS tracking device (e.g.see ...
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### How can I mend this broken heart?

Try to evaluate the following code: ...
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### How to slice TimeSeries data?

When retrieving curated data, v10 now returns TimeSeries objects. For example, ...
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### Geographic background containing both outlines and contours: how?

I would like to create a map which will show lakes and rivers together with elevation contours and contour labels. What is the simplest way to do this with ...
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### how to write TableForm expression into file?

Now I have a list stored in data as follows data = {{"Ca", 1, 1, 1}, {"Ca", 2, 2, 2}, {"Ca", 3, 3, 3}} the ...
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### How to avoid joining MathieuCharacteristicA in a plot? [duplicate]

In the documentation As a function of the first argument, MathieuCharacteristicA is a piecewise continuous function So how to avoid joining different pieces of the function? For example, ...
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### Changing the data indices for a large dataset plotted with ContourPlot

I have a large (square) dataset that I am plotting with ListContourPlot ... The data is 128x128 -- without coordinates for each point. I.e. - {{0,0,1,0,...,0},{0,2,1,1,...,1},...{3,1,1,1,...,2}} So ...
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### Asymptotic expansion on 3 nonlinear ordinary differential equations

The 3 nonlinear differential equations are as follows $$\epsilon \frac{dc}{dt}=\alpha I + \ c (-K_F - K_D-K_N s-K_P(1-q)), \nonumber$$ \frac{ds}{dt}= ...
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### Sqrt disappeared when exporting plot to PDF in version 10

Bug introduced in 10.0.1 or 10.0.2 and fixed in 10.1.0 In version 10, if we plot with Sqrt in y-axis, and export to PDF, the square root disappears in the PDF ...
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### NDSolve: EventAction list specification using Table fails

I have an NDSolve problem that needs a list of a large number of events that are generated programmatically. Here is a simple example that demonstrates the problem on Mathematica 7 and 8 (the versions ...
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### Create a list of random reals

How can I create a list of random pairs $(x,y)$ where $0<y<x<1$ and $x,y \in \mathbb{R}$ ? I can't seem to place that inequality restriction on the random numbers that are generated.
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### One ChartLegend for multiple charts in Dataset?

Dataset's documentation shows how to leverage GroupBy operator at multiple levels ...
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### Can I use what “headerlines” removes from a CSV as TableHeadings for the table I create from that File?

I am reading in some data from a CSV file that has a line which gives titles to each "column". Here is an example: ...
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### Result of Integrate depends on order of integration although the domain is rectangular

The following: ...
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### Simplifying a symbolic product of rational powers

I'm trying to symbolically evaluate a lot of equations that can consist of up to 10 parameters. The form of these expressions is a product/quotient of rational powers of the mentioned parameters, ...
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### How to read from /dev/random?

I am looking to read a few bytes from /dev/random on OS X and Linux. The simplest approach fails on both operating systems (see below). Why? What is a ...
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### Possible bug in Dynamic

The code below crashes the Mathematica kernel in version 10 (not in V9) every time I run it on Windows and on Mac OS. I've sent it to WRI, but was told that they could not reproduce the crash. Does ...
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### How to transpose x and y axes on a LogPlot?

Consider the following simple LogPlot: LogPlot[Exp[x],{x,0,5}] Is there a nice way to switch the axes of a LogPlot? I'm aware that plotting the inverse ...
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### Extrude 2D cross-section to 3D shape with shrinkfactor

I would like to create a 3D shape from extrusion and scaling of a 2D contour. The 2D contour that I have looks like this: and it consists of a bunch of points (here plotted with ...
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### Spike train representation

I have a spike train. The data shows the time at which the neuron fired a spike. I want to plot them like this picture: Here is the data for one spike train which corresponds to the one of the ...
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### NDSolve PDE, not enough boundary condition?

The PDE that I want to solve is:  \frac{\partial f}{\partial t} + \frac{1}{m} \left( p_x \frac{\partial f}{\partial x} + p_y \frac{\partial f}{\partial y} + p_z \frac{\partial f}{\partial z} \right) ...
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I have a function that take p as a parameter, p is a 2X3X3 list, ( a 2X3X3 list can like { {{2,3},{1,2.},{1,1.}}, {{2,3.},{1,2},{1,1}}, {{2,3},{1,2},{1,1}} } ) the function just as: ...
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### Line style thickness differences between Mathematica 9 and 10

I execute the same code in Mathematica 9 and MAthematica 10, and have this different results. ...
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### Best practice of passing a large number of parameters to functions

I have a number of functions that all take a large number of parameters. I am wondering what is the best practice of passing these parameters to those functions. I could, of course, simply specify ...
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### Replacing more than one element from a Sublist

The following expression allows me to extract the value of x and y: ...
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### Lookup in Inverse Symbolic Calculator+ from Mathematica

There is a useful feature in WolframAlpha that allows to find a possible closed form for approximate numeric values. It can be used, for example, to guess the value of an integral that Mathematica ...
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### Suppressing reduction in fraction box size in multi-level fractions [duplicate]

Mathematica display complex fractions like this, the second x look smaller, I want it look like this, how can I get it in Mathematica?
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### Agglomerate output to Graph

I'm using the HierarchicalClustering package to cluster some data. So let's say I have this: ...