# All Questions

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### Making ColorSetter work like a PasteButton

I might be missing something obvious here. I am building a palette for constructing code to make certain graphics. The idea is that my colleagues can click buttons instead of having to know the right ...
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### How to plot points with uncertainties and dates assigned?

I want to plot a graph from list of points, but each point also has uncertainty assigned AND date. Without uncertainties DateListPlot works great, without dates ErrorListPlot works OK, but how it ...
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### How to rename a built-in function?

I want a built-in function renamed without loss of any properties, I want the shorter name to appear in all results and to be recognized as input. Is it possible?
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### Placing Manipulate controls in multiple columns

I have a Manipulate construct with a square Graphic on the left side and all the controls placed on the right side. There are so ...
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### Simple ways to evaluate a derivative at a point?

The contrast in behavior between, say, f[x_] = Sin[x^2]; f'[2] vs. u[x_, y_] = Cos[x + y^2]; has always bothered my ...
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### Prevent interdependence of controls

My question is probably best illustrated with this small sample code: ...
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### The difference between “SymbolicProcessing” -> 0 and restricting the function definition to numeric values only

The Documentation tells us that there are two ways to disable symbolic processing of the integrand by the NIntegrate function when it is known that it just slows ...
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### Mathematica gives wrong answer for an integral

When I execute the following, Integrate[ Exp[-w^2 + I w^3], {w, -∞, ∞}] I get (2 E^(2/27) BesselK[1/3, 2/27])/(3 Sqrt[3]) ...
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### How to create a multi-selectable setterbar with colored buttons

Background: consider the following code-snippet. ...
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### Animate ParametricPlot3D for two different parametric equations

I want to write a computer program to generate 3-D plots (with x-y-t axes) to demonstrate the evolution of the two missiles in the following case: i. $x = 100t$, $y = 80t-16t^2$ for $0\leq t\leq 5$ ...
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### Simplifying nested If statements

Consider : list = {100,102,103,99,106,107,104,112} I want to consider, extract only the "big moves" of that time series. In this case the moves bigger then 5 ...
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### Diagonals of a regular octagon

We had a little activity after school today and one of the questions was: All diagonals are drawn in a regular octagon. At how many distinct points in the interior of the octagon (not on the ...
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### What is the difference between Mathematica and Matlab? [closed]

I am totally a beginner to Wolfram products and I'm searching for a software to solve my math problems with. Like this math problem that I've solved using $\LaTeX$ in ...
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### How does thing[“property”] syntax work?

Many builtin "things" support the (usually undocumented) syntax thing["property"], and usually the available properties can be listed using thing["Properties"] (thing["Methods"] might work too). ...
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### Using Greek $\LaTeX$ fonts

I want to use the $\LaTeX$ font in graphics. For text/numbers, this is easily done by FontFamily -> "CMU Serif" (on Ubuntu) like this: ...
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### How to map Unevaluated over a list

I have a list {a1, a2, ...... , an}, in which all as have been initialized to a number. I want to get: ...
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### Dynamic list in which the sum of the elements is invariant under changes to the elements

2nd Update Here's a snapshot of a graphical user interface I'm thinking. I hope this could be self-explanatory and demonstrate the functionalities I mentioned in the 1st update. Thank you all! ...
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### How do I plot my country map with weather data stations?

I've tried this code, but I can't plot the coordinates in my country map. ...
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### How can i construct a 3D surface pass through a curve defined by formula and some other controllable points?

For example, If a have a curve defined by x^2+y^2=1 and z=0, and some isolated points having z coordinates, Can I construct a 3D surface passed through? It's better if I can change the surface shape ...
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### Collision detection algorithm (discrete) with sweep and prune algorithm

For a more complex collision detection approach, I need an efficient (aka fast) algorithm to prune the elements by using boundary boxes. A classical algorithm is the so called sweep and prune (SAP) ...
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### How to use a compiled function in numerical optimization

I'm trying to wrap my head around function Compile. So, this is a spin-off question from: a previous question on using compile[] correctly. I have a function that ...
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### DeleteMissing level spec confusion

Given: titanic = ExampleData[{"Dataset", "Titanic"}] Why does this correctly delete Missing[] elements: ...
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### Hardware required to perform large symbolic calculations

I'm choosing components to set up a pc aimed to run large symbolic computations in Mathematica 9.0 under Windows 7 64 Bit Pro. I have a limited budget therefore I'm considering this system: Mother ...
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### How to understand the process of ListCorrelate when it in two-dimensional condition?

Toady,I learn a function ListCorrelate,and I can understand process of execution his result in one-dimensional. However,the ...
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### Parallel optimization of Markov Chain Monte Carlo

I'm trying to reduce the computation time of a MCMC simulation. Essentially I have a set of particles performing a random walk in a periodic random potential. The particles are independent and every ...
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### Finding connected components in an array

I have an $w\times h$ array with non-negative integers. I wish to partition the set of coordinates $(c,r)$ with $1\leq c \leq w$ and $1\leq r \leq h$, in subsets, so that each subset corresponds to a ...
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### Select a repeated element in a list

I want to select all elements that repeat 4 times in the list. I propose this code ...
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### Working with a system of differential equations that cannot be solved explicitly

I have to work a lot with three functions $\;o_1(t), o_2(t), o_3(t)\;$ that are solutions to the certain system of differential equations: ...
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### Keeping vertexcoordinates after adding a new vertex

I want to add a new vertex to a graph, with fixed VertexCoordinates but when I use VertexAdd, the new graph does not have the VertexCoordinates of the previous one. ...
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### Graph does not evaluate some options when not displayed

How can I force Graph to evaluate all its options without actually displaying the graph itself? Evaluating the following code ignores the ...
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### Cannot Get Numerical Results to Match

I try this numerical summation (in two parts) ...
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### Fitting data to an ARProcess using FindProcessParameters

I have 50 data points that I would like to represent as an AR(4) process. I'd like to over-plot the behaivor of the estimated process model with that of the original (raw) data before I use the model ...
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### Representative Smooth Kernel Distribution from Truncated Distribution

I am trying to produce a better distribution from a dataset that is bounded to be greater than 0. Here is an example distribution from the documentation that mimics the behavior of the actual dataset: ...
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### Count sublists which match pattern

I have a list which looks like this: data={{12,0},{0,0},{20,1},{0,0}, {0,-1}}. Now I would like to count the number of sublists which: have both slots zero the ...
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### How to mark visible points on a Plot3D?

I'd like to illustrate a two-variable function discontinuous at zero. The function is $f(x,y)=xy/(x^2+y^2)$ unless $x=y=0$, in which case $f(0,0)=0$. I thought that I could draw a plot and then mark ...
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### Export Table from Mathematica into specific cells Excel

How can I export a table to Excel - to specific cells, e.g. D1-E2? Background: I want to compare results, and it's easier to have the results on one spreadsheet. I'm using Mathematica 6. This is my ...
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### Mathematica function intersection points with 3D grid

I need to produce a 3-dimensional equispaced grid over a given function in a way, that I can calculate intersection points of the function with the grids edges. So my first question is how to produce ...
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### Any way to prevent Mac firewall from asking to allow connections all the time?

Whenever I start Mathematica 8 on my Mac the built-in Mac OS firewall asks if I want to allow JLink to accept incoming connections. Then, during running, I'll get the same question about ...
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### FeynArts not working properly

So I have installed all FeynArts folders (from 3.5 to 3.7) with FeynCalc 8.0.1., and none of it is working properly :\ First I load the path to specific FeynArts package (3.5 for instance), then, by: ...
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### Is it possible to generate a Hasse Diagram for a defined relation?

I'm looking for a way to create a Hasse Diagram from a given partial order binary relation. The relation will be given explicitly, for example: ...
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### How to overload System`StringJoin to automatically use ToString on arguments?

I am using an overloaded version of the StringJoin function since years now, without any problem, as I've invested a lot of time and effort earlier to make its ...
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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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### Code Golf: Least Common Multiple

"CodeGolf" challenge: write the shortest practical Least Common Multiple function that: Does not use built in GCD, LCM or any ...
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### Histogram of a very large dataset?

I have a very large dataset stored in a file (over 2GB). The file contains a tab-separated table of floating-point numbers. I want to do an Histogram of all the numbers in the table. But if I try to ...
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### How should I deal with messages being produced by my Manipulate?

I have made a knockoff of John Polking's dfield for a web-embedded CDF (via Enterprise Mathematica). My code extends that from Belisarius who last year showed me how to use ...
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### Selecting the parallel kernels where tasks can be executed

When I use ParallelSubmit, is it possible to select on which kernel a task can possibly be executed? For example if have 3 parallel kernels, can I only use 2 of ...
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### Inaccurate Heliocentric coordinates of PlanetaryMoonData

I have noticed that the heliocentric coordinates obtained with PlanetaryMoonData are very inaccurate. Fore example, consider the Galilean moons of Jupiter: ...
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### Multidimensional arbitrary precision spline interpolation on the grid

This question is a generalization of the previous one for multiple dimensions. In the answer to that question an implementation for the clamped spline interpolation for 1D case and arbitrary degree of ...
I want to numerically solve a system of differential equations in Mathematica, say for example $\frac{dx}{dt} = f(x,y,t) \\ \frac{dy}{dt} = g(x,y,t)$ for $x(t), y(t)$. However, the functions depend ...