# All Questions

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### Difference of old GraphicsGraphics3DListSurfacePlot3D and the current ListSurfacePlot3D

Consider the following example data which creates the lines of a cylinder ...
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### Examine function parameters programmatically

I write a lot of scripts in Mathematica and I'd like to eliminate the boilerplate that parses command-line arguments and assigns them to variables of the correct type before doing the real work. I was ...
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### Error/warning when using NSolve for simple equation

I am using NSolve to solve an equation, as shown here: ...
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This is probably an easy question to answer, but I need a fresh eye... I'm struggling with processing the following file (extract shown here) It's a list of dates, and positive/negative time durations ...
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### How to make a code line dynamic in a Module?

The code line If[StreamPosition>0,Read[str,Record]] should be executed in a Module at first. The Module consists of a Slider and a Pane. The Slider ...
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### Evaluating Polynomials at Grid Points

I am continuing my quest on B-splines. The code below builds a 5x5 matrix out of B-splines, using the BSplineBasis[] routine. I now want to evaluate the polynomials that are stored in each matrix ...
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### How can I set specific ImageSize to each cell of the Grid?

I want to make a Grid with each cell Imagesize was {10,10}.If I place any Gui-Element with more than that cell Imagesize,I don't ...
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### Find points on the surface of a Graphics3D object

If I have a Graphics3D object that was generated from manipulations to PolyhedronData rather than via an explicit equation, for example the Spikey (for which the entire code can be found here The ...
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### Finding the common areas of two contourplots

I used ListContourPlot to specify an area for which the function value is less than a number. For example consider the following areas: ...
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### Scaling of ChartElements

In attempting to answer this question from @Cam on BubbleCharts with elliptical bubbles, I suggested using separate ...
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### Is there a more idiomatic way to solve this implicit differentiation problem?

Here's an exercise from a calculus text by Larson and Edwards: Find the rate of change of the distance between the origin and a moving point on the graph of $y = x^2 + 1$ if $dx/dt = 2$ ...
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### Comparing Mathematica expressions like diff

I am looking for a way to compare (or "diff") two Mathematica expressions, similarly to how to diff utility can compare two text files and report the differences. Has anyone already written such a ...
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### Adapting NDSolve to circumvent NDSolve::bdord: error for 1-D Euler Equations

I attempted to use NDSolve for the 1-D isentropic unsteady flow equations with low subsonic inflow velocity and prescribed inflow total enthalpy; along with a ...
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### Override Equation structure change in mathematica - CopyToLaTeX

I am writing my thesis, and when I do copy to LaTeX from Mathematica, it changes the equation variables and also it rearranges the structure of the original equation. How can I override that ?? ...
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### Plotting two surfaces and visualizing their intersection

Trying to plot the following two functions to show points of intersection. ...
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### How to manipulate plot range with fixed axes

I want to achieve something like this Manipulate[Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, r}, PlotRange -> {{0, 10}, {-1, 1}}], {r, 0.1, 10}] but my function in place of ...
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### Adjacency Matrix for an Undirected Graph

Here is an undirected graph ...
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### Saving and Reading data across computers

I DumpSaved some data from my home laptop, uploaded it onto google drive and now I am trying to open it at my school computer but I am getting errors, even though the data is in the correct directory. ...
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### Contour heat graph (ListContourPlot?)

I have solved 2D incompressible Navier Stokes and written out a .dat file that includes x,y,u,v,p values. I am trying to get a 2D color heat graph like this one for my data Here is what I have done ...
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### Mathematica plots a discontinuity in piecewise function that does not exist [duplicate]

I have the following function defined: ...
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### Finding the root of a nested function with small values

I have reduced an error in my program to this line of code: FindRoot[Nest[# (1 - #) k &, 1/2, 2^4] - 1/2, {k, 3.5}] It works for $2^1, 2^2, 2^3, 2^4,$ but ...
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### How can this AbsoluteTime call be made faster?

I need to convert tons of date strings into absolute times. This generates an example data set of 10,000 strings: ...
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### how to plot log-log histogram in Mathematica 7

I have a large array of real (positive and negative) numbers and I want to plot the histogram of it. I can use Histogram[data, "Log", PlotRange->All] but ...
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### Symbolic Simulations

I have 9 nonlinear equations and 10 unknowns. It is not possible to obtain a numeric solution but I do get a parametric solution. It is useful in my case because I want to observe how parameters (p1, ...
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### Extracting sequences from a list?

Suppose I have a list of arbitrary length like {1, 2, 3, "Open", 3, 2, "Close", 9, 3, 4, "Open", 1, 0, "Close", 3, 5} and I am trying to extract the sequences ...
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### Raster with ColorFunction is blank when Dynamic Updating is disabled

UPDATE Today I was having these WaveletScalogram problems again. I think this is ultimately some kind of interaction issue with Dynamic. I have narrowed it down to ...
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### Pass an empty list object into a function and dynamically generate its list elements

I have another question on passing a list which needs to be generated dynamically. (Sorry for posting two questions in one day...) I did some search and found a similar post here, but I think it was ...
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### Plotting a 2-D shape given its border points [duplicate]

I have the border points of a 2-D body and wish to fill its interior with a solid color. Let us say I have $N$ such points stacked in the $N \times 2$ matrix $A$ so that the first column indicates the ...
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### How to monitor the progress of Importing files? [duplicate]

I want now,how much of percentage was imported,while importing any file. How can I solve this? Can anyone help me? Thank you.
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### How to increase the number of minor ticks in a plot?

I want to increase the number of minor ticks in a plot, but I don't want to label them. I searched through this site and also Mathematica documentation, but I didn't find any solution yet. Could ...
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### FindRoot gives a wrong solution which obviously should not be there

I got stuck on FindRoot and I didn't see any similar problem posted, so let me explain what I am trying to do and what problem I meet here. I try to find roots of a particular function, which in the ...
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### Fourier transform of sampled data

I have got some impulse response data that I would like to transform via Fourier to get the amplitude-frequency characteristics of the performing loudspeaker. The ...
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### Image processing - How can I apply an operation to several images at once?

I imported pictures into Mathematica, and used names for them that follow the easy scheme "name" string joined with an integer, ranging from 14 to 20. Printing these images on screen works nicely: ...
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### Plotting derivatives of B-splines

I am trying to solve an electrodynamics problem numerically by using B-splines a basis function. Please don't ask me why, but if you really wanna know, here is the assignment. Using the following ...
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### How can I solve this system of functional equations?

I would like to use Mathematica to find maps a, b, c, d, e, f such that ...
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### How can Private functions be made completely opaque?

I want to make Private functions. From my point of view, being a Private function means that the function is not accessible from other packages. For that purpose I wrote the following code. But my ...
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### Statistical analysis of data-list with recurring x-values

I have a list of data as follows with repeated x-values: ...
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### How can I make private functions inside packages

I want to make private functions.for that purpose,I wrote the following code. BeginPackage["Test1"] Begin["Private`"] function1[x_]:=x End[] EndPackage[] I ...
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### Probability density histogram with unequal bin widths

I am confused by output of Histogram and HistogramList for probability density ("PDF") when ...
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Lately I come across what I think not uninteresting problem which is a good exercise for the usage of Dynamic. Assume you have files in a directory structure (a ...
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### How do I plot Numerical Range of two hermitian matrices

Let $A_1$ and $A_2$ be two $3\times 3$ hermitian matrices. Then their numerical range is defined as two-dimensional set \begin{align} \mathbb{S}=\{\left[u^HA_1u,u^HA_2u\right]\in ...
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### Replace elements in a list

Suppose that I have a list: ...
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### Write C/C++ programs calling Mathematica functions

I need to write a C/C++ program and call some functions in Mathematica especially those like Solve or NDSolve. The problem is ...
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### Derivatives of list elements

Could someone explain the odd behavior of the Derivative function when drawing arguments from lists? We have, ...
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### Compiled function crashes kernel when trying to list over different length arguments

I'm trying to speed up a tally/binning operation that I have to run many times. I have many lists of between 1 and 10 numbers from the range [1,5] and I want to ...
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### SetPrecision with indexed variables

I have an expression as below: ...
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### Infinite Expression Error from NDSolve

I am trying to solve a differential equation numerically. So I have ...