# All Questions

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### How to create interrelated sliders?

Say I want a slider that controls the value of $x$ and another slider that controls the value of $2x$, how would I go about it?
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### How to make a parallel auto-generated .m package from Initialization cells?

according to the documentation at ref/InitializationCell, When you first save a notebook that contains initialization cells, you have the option to make a ...
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### How do I change the Font in BarChart Legend?

Just wondering if anyone knows the proper Syntax to change the Text properties in the BarChart's ChartLegend. I cannot seem to figure out how to get Style[] to apply. Here is an example: ...
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### How do I view initialization (or other invisible) cells in a notebook?

I am looking at someone else's notebook, and when I go to evaluate it, it asks whether I want to evaluate the initialization cells. I would like to look at them first, but "I do not see them here nor ...
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### Most Efficient Way to Calculate the Product of All Items in a List?

Say that I have a list of returns on a financial asset over time and want to know the total compounded return. To get the answer, I need to add 1 to each return and then calculate the product of all ...
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### How can I set the speed of manipulate play button?

Can you set the speed at which a Manipulate plays when the play button is clicked?
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### Selecting a sublist based on Length

If you have a simple list of lists as follows: test = {{1, 2}, {4, 5, 6, 7}, {5, 4, 3}} How do you ask Mathematica to return the sublist of greatest length? ...
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### Background image in a polygon / CountryData

Is it possible to use a background image in a polygon without rasterizing the polygon? I tried with textures, but they seem to be viable only for simple polygons. I want to put a flag as the ...
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### How to neatly get the sum of symmetric elements in a list?

The task is to compute symmSum[{a, b, c, d, e, f}] (*==> {a+f, b+e, c+d} *) symmSum[{a, b, c, d, e}] (*==> {a+e, b+d, c} *) My clumsy solution is ...
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### How do I extract the contents of a selected cell as plain text?

My aim is to extract the contents of an Input cells as plain text. Ideally I would like to be able to select one or more Input cells and press a button which would then extract the text from these ...
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### Default position and size of front-end windows (in Windows 7)

I'm running Mathematica 8 on Windows 7. When I start the Mathematica front end, I would like the menu bar and the blank notebook that opens to appear at a different position and with a different size ...
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### Customizing syntax highlighting for private cell styles

Is there any way to set up a cell style with a particular syntax highlighting? For example, I'd like to have a CProgram cell to write in blue the C special words. I have done it by setting ...
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### Can Mathematica be regarded as a software prototyping environment?

I am an undergraduate student, starting to use Mathematica to model simple physical chemistry problems, as a prelude to a summer internship in a computational/theoretical chemistry group. The solution ...
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### How to set default magnification for all windows

This is certainly a newbie question but I could not find the answer by searching. I am using Mathematica 8 under Windows 7. I want to use default magnification of 150% for all notebooks and help ...
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### How can I remove B -> A from a list if A -> B is in the list?

I have a list of transformations like this: list = {"A" -> "B", "B" -> "A", "C" -> "D"} As this is used to plot an undirected graph with ...
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### General::ivar is not a valid variable when plotting - what actually causes this and how to avoid it?

I was just evaluating a couple of expressions and started to get errors like this: ...
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### ListPlot with each point a different color and a legend bar

I would like to generate a ListPlot with the color for each point in the plot corresponding to a particular value (not associated with the position in the plot). I'd then like to add a legend ...
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### Check in a series if there exists adjacent values with less than a certain number of missing values

I'm working with a large number of series of different experiments, where there exist a lot of experiments where there are no entries. I now want to draw a sample where there should exist at least ...
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### How to Delete Elements from List1 appearing in List2?

I'm new to functional programming of Mathematica and trying to remove one list of assorted elements from another. However I only find functions working with the Index rather than the values itself: ...
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### Permutations[Range[12]] produces an error instead of a list

This input: Permutations[Range[12]] Results in this (error) output: ...
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### Custom Mathematica Shortcut: Copy as $\LaTeX$

If you edit the Wolfram Research\Mathematica\8.0\SystemFiles\FrontEnd\TextResources\Windows\MenuSetup.tr file you can make Ctrl+Shift+C copy not plain but in ...
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### What Mathematica book to buy?

I have used Mathematica for several years but at a pretty low level - piecing together built-in function inefficiently and fearing the sight of # and &'s when I see others use them (I never do). I ...
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### Unit testing J/Link projects in Workbench

I am having some problems setting up the MUnit testing framework for a J/Link project and would be grateful for advice. I do have J/Link working when running or debugging the .nb notebook in ...
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### How can I use the Klingon alphabet symbols?

Note: This functionality is presently missing. See: How to add named characters to Mathematica 10? Mathematica apparently supports the Klingon alphabet: ...
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### Pattern to match a non-empty list of non-empty lists

Is there a pattern to match a list of lists, containing at least one list, with each list containing at least one element? In the Mathematica documentation it says that the pattern ...
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### How to fix errors in Gram-Schmidt process when using random vectors?

I first make a function to get a random vector on unit sphere in a swath around the equator. That is what the parameter $\gamma$ controls; if $\gamma = 1/2$, the vectors can be chosen anywhere on the ...
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### Why does ListPlot ignore some global options?

Why does the following plot no use the global PlotMarkers option? ...
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### Parallelize evaluation of function with memoization

I have a complicated function that I need multiple times, so I want to memoize it and have the first evaluation done in parallel. Unlike in my example below it's not a continuous function, so ...
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### Fit an image within a Rectangle [] in Graphics

Based on the following Code (yet the white text in the image is added with PPT), I would like to have an image fit within one of the rectangle. For Example the image from there : ...
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### How to get rid of Panel margins?

I have a feeling that there is something wrong in general with Mathematica's way of dealing with margins and spaces among/around objects in Graphics, ...
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### Toolbars in Mathematica

Mathematica seriously lacks some useful toolbars. I wonder why keeping a totally barebone gui is part of WRI's policy? Would such a feature be so platform-specific that it does not worth design it? I ...
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### How to develop an Import/Export converter for Compress[]ed data?

Mathematica has a cross platform data exchange format, WDX. Unfortunately importing or exporting large data from/to WDX is very slow. Using MX files is very fast, but they are not compatible across ...
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### Selectively Mapping over elements in a List

I am using the following code to easily generate a row of images of all eight planets of our Solar System: ...
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### Generate Random Text within a Rectangle

I would like to generate images such as the four below. That is: some text of different length fit within a Rectangle[] using ...
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### WYSIWYG table creating and editing

In Microsoft Office OneNote 2010, creating and editing tables is easy. There are simple toolbar controls for creating tables: , and editing them once they exist: . My question is, what's an easy ...
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### Export Graphics[] without white edges

I am trying to generate & Export[] Image with the below code, but as shown in the images I get some white border around my rectangle. How could I export an images that stopes right at the edge of ...
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### creating vectors with normal distribution of lengths

First consider vectors of unit length, say on the unit sphere. Now I want to give some magnitude to these vectors and I want the magnitude to be chosen from the normal distribution. In one dimension ...
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### CUDA: setting grid dimensions

I'm new to CUDA, and CUDALink. I see how CUDAFunctionLoad allows one to set the block dimensions. On calling the function, you can also either pass as argument or have MMA automatically select the ...
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### Good ways to organize and document collections of mathematica notebooks?

I've now been using Mathematica for about a year, and am starting to get a somewhat unwieldy collection of notebooks. Sometimes I've figured out how to do a particular task in one of them, and want ...
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### Replace rule also matching complex numbers

I'm having the replace rule: rule = {-g_ x_^4 - 2 g_ x_^2 y_^2 - g_ y_^4 -> -g (x^2 + y^2)^2}; Now, ...
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### Using variables in function names

I want to make a list of plots and my functions are named C1, C2... Cn. The command I wish ...
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### Multiple colors in Graphics[] environment

There are other questions on the site that are similar to this one, but the answers provided didn't help me. I want to draw disks of different radii. Each radius is the absolute value of a variable, ...
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### Manipulate with a variable number of sliders

I have a function that operates on a list of parameters of variable-length $n$. I would like to create a Manipulate[] that has $n$ sliders, one for each list ...
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### Creating randomly oriented planes

I would like to create randomly oriented planes. This is how I'm attempting to do that: I create a 2 random unit vectors, $\mathbf{v}_1$, and $\mathbf{v}_2$, in the $x$-$y$ plane I assume that if I ...
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### Why is MainEvaluate being used when LinearSolve can be compiled?

According to this question LinearSolve can be Compiled. However, CompilePrint shows a MainEvaluate but no-warning is generated. It appears that LinearSolve is not ...
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### Knowing when a notebook has changed programmatically

Is there any way I can programatically determine whether a notebook has unsaved edits? Is that asterisk on the right of the notebook name represented in a notebook option or something, like ...
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A quick question, but which I don't believe has been asked here or at SO. Does Mathematica have a simple way to just download a file from the web? i.e. if I have a list of PDF links (~ 2,000), can I ...