# All Questions

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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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### How to convert arbitrary raw boxes directly into String?

This question is motivated by the recent question about searching inside of the NB files. According to the Documentation, ToString expects a high-level WL ...
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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 ...
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### Ordered associations

Mathematica 10 has introduced Associations, elsewhere known as hash tables or dictionaries. Is there Ordered equivalent like in Python, Java, .NET? The data structure should remember the order in ...
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### Implement functions that depend on previous value in NDSolve

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 ...
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### HoldForm does not Hold Form for fractions sometimes

I'm facing a strange behavior of HoldForm. I need to display 1/2*3/4 in LaTeX like this : $$\frac{1}{2} \times \frac{3}{4}$$ ...
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### How can I Integrate large trigonometric expressions more efficiently?

I have a requirement to integrate some large symbolic expressions containing products of trigonometric functions. A single integration is averaging 7 minutes, and I have 2628 expressions to integrate, ...
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### Why is there a huge performance gap using Map with more than 100 List entries

im using Map on a List like this: cube= {{1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 2}, {1, 1, 3}, {1, 1, 4}, ... , {5, 5, 4}, {5, 5, 5}} Mapping the whole List with 125 entries takes ...
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### Is it possible to Print into a collapsable CellGroup?

During rather long computation I have intermediate steps Printed with useful information which should be collected for possible use in future inside of the ...
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### Capturing an F1

I teach an Intro to Mathematica course, and one of the things I try to reinforce early on is just how helpful Mathematica's help is. In the very first lab for the course, I even give the students a ...
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### Labelling objects in a picture with numbers

I need help processing a biology bacteria picture. I just started learning Mathematica and I hope you guys can use a simple method to help me solve the problem, please do not use super complicated ...
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### Make a differentiable smooth sawtooth waveform

So, I am trying to understand the effect of sawtooth waveform on a mechanical system model. For example, a system of a plate and a box on it. And then we try to oscillate the plate. In order to do ...
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### ListPlot3D of a set of points in a non-convex region

I would like to plot a set of points in the same style as ListPlot3D does, but only in a non-convex region that I can specify (e.g. using a ...
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### Is there anything like a C pointer (or returning a reference) in $Mathematica$?

I want to do in Mathematica what the following does in C. ...
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I am using Mathematica 9 on Windows 8, and I regularly want to use cell styles such as Section, SubSection and so on. If I click the + button before creating a new ...
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### Embedding StreamPlot in Graphics3D

I am trying to visualise the action of the infinitesimal generator of a Lie group on the solution of a 2-ODE system drawn in the 3D space (t,y1,y2): t is time and y1,y2 are the two dependent ...
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### How to fold output cells by default?

In Mathematica the default behavior of output cells is to pop up after the kernel has processed the input cells and got a result. I know I could add ; in the end of ...
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### How do you export the result of a RevolutionPlot3D to STL for printing?

How do you export the result of a RevolutionPlot3D to STL (STereoLithography) file format for printing? I am a tyro when it comes to 3D rendering and printing.
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### What is the default ColorFunction for 3D plots?

This should be a really simple question, but it isn't in the documentation for some perverse reason. I like the default ColorFunction that Mathematica uses for ...
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### Is Table the only functional way to construct nested loops in Mathematica?

Suppose you have a cubic box containing identical particles and you want to compute the distances between each particle and every other particle in the box without double-counting (i.e., if you've ...
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### Performance: Collapsing repeated contiguous rows & cols from a matrix

In this answer I needed to remove contiguous zero-valued cols and rows from a matrix, leaving only two of them in place, no matter what the original number was. I made up this code: ...
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### Getting all physical units with prefixes

How we can get the list with all physical units and prefixes from WolframAlpha and make symbols from the result to be equal their corresponding quantities like described in this post?
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### Exporting a rasterized Row of Graphics

I'm running some code based on @R.M.'s answer to this question to create a couple plots side by side. I want to export the plots rasterized to a png. However, when I ...
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### How can I scale tick marks without scaling my function?

Take this plot for instance: It shows power in W, but I'd like to see it in µW, so that I get 200, 400, 600,..., which is much more readable. Is there a way to do this without scaling my ...
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### MatchQ failing in some cases with Hold [duplicate]

Could someone clarify why the first of these MatchQ finds a match whereas the second does not? (I'm using version 10.0, in case that matters.) ...
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### Recognize physical constants?

Is there some way to ask Mathematica to recognize physical constants, such as 32 or 9.81 (gravitational acceleration, in different units, at Earth's surface)? I have in mind something like the ...
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### How to read the intersect corodinate of two lines from the ListLinePlot?

Suppose I have two curves intersect at some point, how can I read the coordinates from the graph, not read by eye, but find it with more precision by computer. For example, here are two lists created ...
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### A bug fix to mathematica 10.0.1.0

There is a bug in the Wolfram Symbolic Transfer Protocol Development in C (Windows). I described it in the next answer by myself, from which I summarize: One cannot successfully compile the ...
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### Finding minimal distance between two surfaces

This code will display two parametric surfaces: ...
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### Using compiled function inside NMinimize

Consider this code: ...
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### Circular membrane vibration simulation

I'm new in Mathematica and I'm trying to simulate the vibration of a circular membrane for math project but I don't even know how to start. The wave equation describes the displacement of the ...
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### How to dequantify units in mathematica?

Is there a function which applied to a quantity returns its numerical value so I for instance can fill it into my Predictorfunction?
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### How to change the aspect ratio with drawing tool?

I'm drawing an image in editing an slide show with the drawing tools. But the aspect ratio of the created drawing seems fixed and not changeable with mouse dragging the border and corner as in other ...
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### How to change front end setting “Parallel Kernel Configuration” in the code?

I'm trying to run Mathematica parallel on multiple nodes on a HPC, and I use the remote kernel tab in the "Parallel Kernel Configuration" settings to set the communication between different ...
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### Listing matrices up to symmetry

I am interested in the equivalence relation on N x N binary matrices, in which two matrices are equivalent if one can be obtained by rotating/reflecting the other. I would like to obtain a list ...
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### ItoProcess function

While looking in the help manual of Mathematica concerning the ItoProcess function I found the following: ItoProcess[{a,b,c},x,t]: represents an Ito Process y(t)=c(t,x(t)), where ...
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### Summation with constraints

I am trying to do the summation shown below, $\sum_{i_1=0}^{imax_1} \sum_{i_2=0}^{imax_2} \dots \sum_{i_k=0}^{imax_k} f(i_1,\dots,i_k)$ $k$ is a variable. Therefore $i$ and $imax$ are defined as ...
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### Analytically solve the eigenvalue problem with infinite dimensions by Mathematica?

If I am given a symbolic expression of all the matrix elements in an infinite-dimensional space, e.g., the Hamiltonian of a quantum mechanical system, is it possible to get the symbolic expression for ...
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### Classifying poker hands by pattern matching

I am working on this question posed in a Mathematica course revised in 1998. Here are the instructions: Poker Hands You are to define and show working examples of a function "...