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Numbered equations/formulas

How do you number equations in Mathematica notebooks so that they are exported correctly into latex? In case you don't know how to put numbered equations here is quick review. Open a new notebook ...
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Is this the most effective and efficient programming style for prototyping (a ray tracer) in Mathematica?

I am trying out Mathematica as a prototyping tool. As an initial exercise I have put together a brute force ray tracer, with a view to using Mathematica's built in probability distribution functions ...
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Managing Stack Exchange favorites via Documentation Center

My Stack Exchange favorites are getting bigger and bigger. It is becoming unmanageable and is getting hard to find what I look for. A related question is Sort favorite questions. Is it possible to ...
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Are greek symbols causing different evaluation?

I've updated today to Mathematica 9.0.1.0 from version 8 and found something that absolutely confuses me. Let us define a piecewise function: ...
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This is a rather specific question and I apologize for spamming you with some lengthy code. But it could be interesting for some reader and maybe you can help out, so please bear with me. I am using ...
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Save as pdf broken in version 10.0.2?

Fixed in 10.1 It looks like the save as pdf is broken after I update to version 10.0.2. The labels in the plot become a mess. Are there ways to fix it? The ...
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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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What Mathematica features and idioms have $n^2$ complexity or worse

Here are a few: AppendTo[data, elem], Sort[data, test], in some cases use of ___ (as ...
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What is the status of ::usage and Templates in Mathematica v10.1?

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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Does Mathematica store hidden information for matrix objects?

Bug introduced in 10.0.0 and persisting through 10.1.0 or later I found a case where calling one built-in function (HermitianMatrixQ) for a given matrix changes ...
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Version 10 cannot print properly?

Update Not fixed in version 10.1 (OS X 10.10.2) I have two problems with printing in version 10. First, I can't print correctly with a setting of printing scale For example, I have some plots in ...
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Numerically solving Helmholtz equation in 3D for arbitrary shapes

Context While studying manifold Learning I got interested in finding the eigenvectors of the Laplacian. (also in connection to this problem of solving the heat equation) Following this and that ...
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How would I improve this Karaoke machine code?

I was looking at a large collection of Import/Export user suggestions the other day and it dawned on me that we finally have MIDI import in Mathematica 9, which is rather interesting since MIDI ...