# All Questions

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### How to automate a FrontEnd return?

I use some custom shortcut keys in KeyEventTranslations.tr. One is for the Delete All Output function: ...
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### Creating Plots for a Family of Solutions

I am wondering how do you set the parameters appropriately for $a_n,\,\alpha,\,\text{and }b_n$ to plot the family of solution of: $u_n(r,t) = [a_n\cos(k_n\alpha t)+b_n\sin(k_n\alpha t)]J_0(k_nr)$ ...
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### How to make a function like Set, but with a Block construct for the pattern names

How can we define a function that works like f[x_]=ComputeSomething[x] and treats x as a variable that does not have a value? ...
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### How do I plot a plane EM wave?

I would like to display an electromagnetic (EM) wave. I have written code that works, but it does not "shade" the area between the graph and the axes. Both the ...
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### Keeping Text Size the Same Throughout Entire Notebook File

Is there a way in which when you choose to format the size of the font within your notebook, for a particular cell, when you go into another cell, the default size font (12pt) will not be ...
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### How do I save a variable or function definition to a file?

Is it possible to save a function which was created via Interpolation of some data in such a way that I can use this function in a new Mathematica session without ...
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### Is it possible to use the LevenbergMarquardt algorithm for fitting a black-box residual function?

I have a black-box multiargument multiparametric function of the type SRD[dataPoint_List,params_List] which accepts experimental data along with the parameters of ...
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### Implementing efficient multiple undo

At the time this question was asked, version 10 was not out yet. The Front End of Mathematica 10 does have multiple undo, see the answer by John Fultz. The Mathematica Front End's built-in Undo ...
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### Changing FrontEnd automatic scrolling in version 8

In Mathematica versions < 8, the FrontEnd has a very intelligent behavior: On evaluation, it by default automatically scrolls down the Notebook window to the last printed Output cell but also ...
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### How to work around incorrect tooltips in plots exported to HTML

This is an issue that I always wanted to investigate but haven't gotten around to solving yet: The tooltips for contour lines in a plot like this can be very useful in the Notebook interface: ...
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### Using implicit differentiation to find a line that is tangent to a curve at a point

A few days ago I asked about using differentiation to find a line that is tangent to a curve at a given point. J.M. provided a very elegant way to solve these kinds of problems in Mathematica. Now ...
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### How can you stop ordering of InputField entries?

I have: InputField[Dynamic[d]] Dynamic[d] If I enter e.g. a b x^5 h m the entry automatically gets sorted, as per screen ...
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### How can I change the keyboard shortcut for switching the active window?

The default keyboard shortcut (on Windows at least) for switching focus to the next window is Ctrl+F6, and for switching to the previous windows it's Shift+Ctrl+F6. How can I change this to Ctrl+Tab ...
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### Get the neighboring vertices and incident edges from a vertex in a graph

I need to get the neighboring vertices and incident edges from a vertex in a graph. I assume NeighborhoodVertices can be used for the former. Anything better? Or ...
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### How to write a function to add edges or vertex to a graph

I need to add either a vertex or an edge to a graph, and also sometimes, vertices or edges, or a mixture of the two. How to write a function for this?
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### Efficiently collecting results inside a compiled function

When we don't know the number of results that will be generated, the usual way to collect results is Reap/Sow. Another ...
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### Injecting a sequence of expressions into a held expression

Consider the following toy example: Hold[{1, 2, x}] /. x -> Sequence[3, 4] It will give Hold[{1, 2, Sequence[3, 4]}] ...
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### Measure a DensityHistogram[] pair similarity

I study human vision and more specifically eye-movements. "If we display 2 symmetrical patterns (20 min one after the other), will our gaze distribution be symmetric is my research question." The 2 ...
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### How to Derive Tuples Without Replacement

Given a couple of lists like a={1,2,3,4,6} and b={2,3,4,6,9} I can use the built-in Mathematica symbol ...
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### Visualizing several long lists of numerical information to see relative frequency

Mathematica has very powerful visualization techniques. However, I'm at a loss at how to best make the following chart readable. ...
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### What is the fastest way to locate an image inside a larger image?

let b = let c = How to do: find[c,b] that returns the bounding box of c in b? ...
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### Passing down arguments

In R, one can use ... to pass arguments down to another function. For example ...
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### How can this confetti code be improved to include shadows and gravity?

Here's some confetti: ...
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### Using FindFit to fit $a\,b^t$: how to avoid introducing complex numbers?

I'd like to find a model $f(t)=a\,b^t$ which matches the following data ...
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### Calling IronPython code from Mathematica

I'd like to call some IronPython code from Mathematica using .NET/Link. The problem is that the code lives in .py files, yet from Mathematica I can only load .NET assemblies which are DLLs. So it ...
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### Transform vector with lag

Say I have a vector $Z_n$ with and I want to transform it into another vector using this formula: $X_t=Z_t+0.7Z_{t-2}$ The problem is that I am not quite sure how to get that $t-2$ lag in there. I ...
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### List of Parallelize[]-able functions

The question is clear and is inspired by this question and the first comment on this question. Although there are many tricks for parallelizing things that are not ...
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### Rectangle with rounded edges

Inspired from : Fit an image within a Rectangle [] in Graphics I would like now to fit an image within a Rectangle[] with rounded edges as shown in the example below : Is it possible ?
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### Efficiency of ParallelDo when a global variable./matrix is being updated

(Disclaimer: I realize that the addition of matrices a and b below can be done very fast just by typing a+b. The code below is just meant to illustrate behavior similar to what I observe in much more ...
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### RootSearch for complex or multiple equations

First the background. I'm trying to solve for the roots of a rather messy complex equation. This is not the exact equation, but it's a decent (simpler) stand in: ...
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### Is there any automatic differentiation package?

I'm wondering if an automatic differentiation package exists for Mathematica. This is what I mean by automatic differentiation.
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### RecurrenceTable not evaluated: mathematica just echoes input

Forgive the newbie question... I am trying to create a table of the following system, following the Stirling example in the documentation, but Mathematica just echoes my input. What am I doing wrong? ...
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### Module vs DynamicModule for a dynamic variables in a grid. || Spelling Bee

When my daughter asked me help with her spelling homework, for me the obvious thing to do was to write a Mathematica program for it. The words: ...
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### How to add fill color to a 2D Graphics object?

Problem / background: consider the following code snippet. ...
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### Result of Reduce contains duplicate terms

On my system, the result of this: f[x_] := 2 Sin[x] + Sin[x]^2; Reduce[f'[x] == 0, x] contains the following expression twice: ...
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### adding labels to points in ListPlot

Table[{Re[5 Exp[I 5/2 t]], Im[5 Exp[I 5/2 t]]}, {t, 0, 6}] ListPlot[%] This code plots 6 points in the complex plane. To each point I would like to add a label in ...
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### Convert GraphPlot[]s with many nodes into something that's human-understandable

This is more of an abstract/creative problem. I think everyone who has played around with GraphPlot, ended up with an image that looks like this, at least once in ...
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### ScientificForm is not being applied

I am looking to compute the value of $\sum^{3249}_{n=58} 2^{n \choose 2}$, but when I try to execute ScientificForm[Sum[2^Binomial[n, 2], {n, 58, 3249}]], I get a ...
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### Equation of a line that is tangent to a curve at point

A common problem in the derivative section of calculus texts is "find the equation of the line that is tangent to the curve $y = \ldots$ at the point $P$." To find the line that is tangent to \$y = 2 ...
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### Using a PatternTest versus a Condition for pattern matching

My last question to the site resulted in several answers that involve using pattern matching in Mathematica, a feature I wasn't very familiar with at the time. I am currently reading Mathematica ...
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### Can Eigenvalues[] and Eigenvectors[] be assumed to return the same ordering?

If I do back to back calls of Eigenvalues[] and Eigenvectors[] can these be assumed to order the values and vectors the same, or ...