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Select a Placeholder in a Notebook?

How might I select the 1st Placeholder in a Notebook? SelectionMove Has no option. ...
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Solving a system of difference equations in an exponential steady-state growth setting

I have a system of difference equations in an exponential steady-state balanced growth setting; all variables grow at the same steady-state rate, say, $g$. I use the notations as follows: Variable $X$ ...
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Eliminate 3 Variable from 4 Equations

I am trying to use Mathematica to Eliminate 3 following variable from 4 equations. Any clue or link to similar solved problem is highly appreciated: ...
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How to find a recurrence relation for a sequence?

I have a sequence given by an explicit formula for n-th term: ...
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Keyboard Shortcut several Keys

I would like to set up a system (or define a keyboard shortcut) so when you type the following sum I have the following print at the current selection. ...
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Manipulate Parametric Plot [closed]

Is it possible to plot the values of x and y in Mathematica? ...
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Coloring edges of a graph according to their weight?

What's the simplest way to plot a graph with weighted edges, such that the color of the edge corresponds to the weight of the edge?
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How can I construct and visualize a hypergraph?

A hypergraph is a generalization of a graph, in which an edge can connect more than two vertices. Thus you can think of an edge in an hypergraph as a subset of nodes. Since version 8, Mathematica has ...
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Behavior of Commonest when there is an even split between the elements of the list it is given

How can I alter Commonest so that, when I give it an input of four zeroes and ones such as $\{0,1,1,0\}$, which has an even split in its elements, it returns the ...
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interpolating function over dates

I've got a bunch of readings at various dates and times. I'd like to be able to interpolate and then integrate over, say days. I can do this by converting my date/time to ...
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How to Nest a Function with three Arguments?

I have two functions with three arguments $f_x(a,b,t)$ and $f_y(a,b,t)$. And i need a nesting like this ...
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Problem with FrameLabel in the ErrorListPlot function

I've been trying to print information on the axes of a graphic. I'm doing that by the option FrameLabel in the ErrorListPlot ...
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How to build a game board [duplicate]

I have - rather lazily - constructed a chessboard like this: ...
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What should I do if the geographical map provided by Mathematica doesn't show some rivulets?

I have a list of geographical coordinates(maybe the coordinates are not that accurate, but the problem is not that vital): ...
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Stuck in local minimum in NonlinearModelFit using Simulated Annealing? [closed]

I recorded a set of experimental rates $r = r(c,T,P)$ at 2 values of $c$ and >15 values of $T$. $r(c,T,P)$ obeys the following functional form:  r(c,T,P) = ...
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FEM: Nicer Element Shape for Spherical Region

I'm trying to generate a mesh for later use in the Finite Element Method of the DSolve command. It is basically a parallelepiped with a spherical indentation. I'm ...
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Difference in output from R's mvtnorm and Mathematica/Java

Let a=$\mathcal{N}(6.532056,0.06532056)$,b~$\mathcal{N}(8.390961,0.08390961)$ and c~$\mathcal{N}(8.736566,0.08736566)$. We use $\mathcal{N}(\mu,\sigma^2)$ notation unless specified otherwise. We ...
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Inactive derivative: extract constants

I have a problem with an unevaluated derivative. In the example code below, i need the integration wrt to y be evaluated, while the differentation wrt x needs to stay unevaluated. I see the point that ...
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Segmentation of sunspots

I recently went for a walk with my camera and snapped a few pictures of the sun. The pictures didn't turn out too well, but this was to be expected without a telescope. I thought it might be a nice ...
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Dynamic ListLinePlot

I have a list of lists looking like this: {{{x1, y1}, {x2, y2}}, {x1, y1},...}}. Furthermore I have defined a legend, which is taken from the filenames. Now I want ...
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What is the status of ::Usage and Templates in Mathematica v10?

In Mathematica 9, a number of issues concerning the ::Usage and templates were raised. In 9.0, there was a bug first reported here and better diagnosed here, where ...
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Transforming parametric representation of coordinates into cartesian coordinate system

Is it possible in Wolfram Mathematica to transform output of BSplineFunction so it returns results in cartesian coordinates not in parametric representation? Thank you for your responce. I should ...
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kernel stops evaluation, clears variables

I am using the new Mathematica 10 student edition. As I am evaluating a table of integrals and calling NIntegrate repeatedly, the evaluation stops without error and the kernel clears all variables. ...
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How to get $x$ in terms of $y$ and $w$ from $w = a p x^{p-1} \left(a x^p+b y^p\right)^{\frac{1}{p}-1}$

I'm having trouble to solve the following equation for $x$ both manually and in Mathematica: $\quad \quad w = a p x^{p-1} \left(a x^p+b y^p\right)^{\frac{1}{p}-1}$ In Mathematica notation: ...
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How to blend two photos in Mathematica?

The following two photographs forest and tiger were blended into one with screen blending mode in Photoshop. How to accomplish the same result in Mathematica? ...
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Breaking up combined data into several smaller data sets

I have one combined data with first number as the x-value and the remaining as different y-axis values (y1,y2,y3...). How do I break this combined list, data= (x,y1,y2,y3...) into smaller lists, such ...
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FindClusters giving wrong groupings

I am having trouble getting FindClusters to find the right clustering for this set of data (and many other sets of data similar to it): ...
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I can't Plot the equation -(π/4) + x - 1/2 Sin[2 x] == 0 [closed]

I'm starting with Mathematica and I can't solve numerically the equation -(π/4) + x - 1/2 Sin[2*x] == 0 using NSolve as well ...
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How to find this limit correctly?

How to find the limit Limit[n*Sin[2*Pi*Exp[1]*n!], n -> Infinity] ? Mathematica 10 outputs ...
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What's the difference between this differentiation? [closed]

I've tried to evaluate a sum and get a result in terms of Zeta function. And I have results in two forms: ...
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Implementing local variables of a recursive function with either Module or Block

First, some quick background: I have been eagerly learning Wolfram and Mathematica for two months now, and along the way have written about 250 pages of teaching material that has ballooned into a ...
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Parallelizing sparse array construction

I have a very large sparse array, and the computation of individual matrix elements is fairly expensive. The Matrix is Hermitian and traceless, so I would like to construct only the sub-diagonal ...
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Driven simple harmonic oscillator — amplitude of steady state motion

I am (partly as an exercise to understand Mathematica) trying to model the response of a damped simple harmonic oscillator to a sinusoidal driving force. I can solve the differential equation with ...
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NonlinearStateSpaceModel: Trying to parse the documentation

I am trying to follow the documentation on NonlinearStateSpaceModel here, and the first basic example throws me for a loop. It says it's defining the nonlinear ...
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Symbolically solving a system of nonlinear equations

I am trying to solve the following system of equations and did the following ...
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In my code: ...
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Find the solution of A^2+AB+B^2 = f(a,b,c) [closed]

I wanted to ask the following question: I need to find the solutions (a particular one is enough!) A and B of the equation $A^2 + AB + B^2 = (a^2+ab+b^2)(c^2+cd+c^2)$ How can I do it? Thank ...
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Suggested Settings for Mathematica over X11/SSH Tunnel

I am happy to discover that I can run a Mathematica session tunneled over SSH. However, as expected for X11 applications over the network, Mathematica's GUI does not have the responsiveness that I ...
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Add to the last digit a number

I have data from a Multimeter that has a precision of 0.6%rdg+4dgt. So i want to take the last digit of, say, 12.007 and add 4 to the last digit like ...
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Is there a bug in the Part function of Mathematica 10?

I am using Mathematica 10 now. I typed code below {{1, 2}, {2, 4}, {3, 6}, {4, 8}}[[;; , 1]][[1]] and this gives result 1 ...
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Order of eigenvectors [duplicate]

I have a matrix A = {{5, 4, 2}, {4, 5, 2}, {2, 2, 2}} The eigenvalues are 1, 1, 10 and I need to find the eigenvectors. ...
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Understanding Paste and how to get a string from the Clipboard to use with ImportString

Trying to work on this question I got distracted by my first naive attempt of copying the data and then typing dat = ImportString[Paste[], "Table"] ...
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Importing High Precision (22 digits) data from a file

I want to import list from a file and I am using ReadList but my data is in format like this 8.2457409790900004e+08 but it i being imported like $8.24574*10^8$. Is ...
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Importing FITS file from HEALPix

I am trying to read FITS file created by HEALPix software. The file contains a spherical map of a scalar field. There is the online support on how to use the file in IDL, but not for Mathematica. I ...
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Timeline plotting: horizontal bars of time intervals

This text file logs the time that a process (identified by a number) changes state ("Brown", "Blue" etc.") ...
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3D Contour Plot - parts with gradients less and more than zero

I'm trying to plot sections of the 3D Contours, with gradient less than zero, and more than zero and equal to zero. It manages to solve for the derivative, but when I apply the conditions ...
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How to create a neon light effect in Mathematica?

I tried to use Glow to create a neon light effect on a torus object. The result shown on the left of the picture below looks quite different from the real one on ...
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PDE with Stefan Conditions, a.k.a variable boundary

I want to solve the one-dimensional one-phase Stefan problem, but I don't know how to make Mathematica understand the conditions. If you are not familiar with what I'm asking please refer to this ...