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Mar
18
comment How to determine all cases consistent with constraints
@JonathanShock: Both of the conjunctions I showed (in In[1] and In[2]) are tautologically False, irrespective of the truth value of the individual components.
Feb
12
comment Symbolic derivative of $n$-term product
@whuber: I've added a clarification to my post.
Feb
12
comment Symbolic derivative of $n$-term product
@DanielLichtblau: Thanks! This is probably the road to the proof I'm looking for, even though, as you say, it does not use Mathematica much. (See my comment to whuber's answer.)
Feb
12
comment Symbolic derivative of $n$-term product
Thanks! I picked your answer reluctantly, because I really would have preferred to pick all three: each shows something different and valuable. I figured that it would be better to choose (however inaccurately) than not to, so I finally went with yours on the grounds that it contains most Mathematica-specific stuff...
Feb
12
comment Symbolic derivative of $n$-term product
@DanielLichtblau Actually, this condition is easy to see from the expression for the derivative when $n=1$, so maybe I can set up an induction..
Feb
12
comment Symbolic derivative of $n$-term product
@DanielLichtblau: Yes, that's my guess too.
Jan
24
comment How to translate interactive graphics from Mathematica to standard HTML+SVG?
Even if CDF weren't a proprietary technology belonging to WRI (in contrast, e.g., to HTML + SVG), the fact that, AFAIK, it requires downloading and installing a separate viewer is a deal-breaker for the type of use cases I'm interested in at the moment. I confess that I don't know much about webMathematica, except that using it requires giving WRI more money... (I gave up trying to get the straight scoop on webMathematica after following one-too-many hyperlink to a sales-hype-filled page.)
Jan
24
comment How to translate interactive graphics from Mathematica to standard HTML+SVG?
@cormullion: I can't come up with a quick and non-controversial answer to your question... :)
Jan
23
comment What algorithm does Plot use to determine abscissas?
@Mr.Wizard: That link leads to quite a lode of insight on Plot's ways... Thanks!
Jan
22
comment How to translate interactive graphics from Mathematica to standard HTML+SVG?
I don't know much about SVG yet, but my impressions about it so far are consistent with your comments. Namely, SVG provides the graphics primitives, but there do not seem be any decent libraries (in JavaScript or anything else) to support higher-level programming of SVG-based plots.
Jan
22
comment How to translate interactive graphics from Mathematica to standard HTML+SVG?
"Whatever your approach, you'd certainly need a good library of special functions and tools to solve equations involving these over entire intervals" Well, a point to such a library was one of the types of answers I was hoping for... Thanks for the nice example, BTW!
Jan
22
comment What algorithm does Plot use to determine abscissas?
@belisarius: Yeah, that's what I was alluding to with my opening parenthetical remark... Your comment basically tells me that, yep, my question was pretty naive... I guess I was hoping to find something like "Mathematica's algorithm is based on a fourth-order Craske-Trump adaptive bisection algorithm, but it has been enhanced with many proprietary modifications..."
Jan
22
comment What algorithm does Plot use to determine abscissas?
@belisarius: interesting trick, thanks, but I confess that I don't feel much more capable of guessing Mathematica's algorithm for generating the mesh than I was before...
Jan
22
comment How to translate interactive graphics from Mathematica to standard HTML+SVG?
@Ajasja: That's precisely one of the options I was trying to exclude with the "non-propietary" qualifier...
Jan
12
comment How to automate x[i]→x_{i}?
Your answer suggests that Mathematica itself can render TeX. Can it?
Oct
1
comment How to combine ArrayPlots?
Thanks for your post and comments. (The latest version of your post makes my previous comment invalid, so I've deleted.)
Sep
30
comment Is it possible to specify a context-sensitive, “depth-agnostic” rewrite rule?
@LeonidShifrin: Thanks!
Sep
30
comment Is it possible to specify a context-sensitive, “depth-agnostic” rewrite rule?
++Thanks! This goes a long way. Minor follow-up comment/question: for RR1-RR3, it looks to me like, for the innermost replacement, Rule may be used instead of RuleDelayed... I haven't yet come up with a case that would distinguish a clear preference for one (of Rule vs RuleDelayed) over the other.
Sep
29
comment PDF exports of ArrayPlot's are fuzzy (OS X)
@rm-rf: Thanks! If you post your comment, I'll by happy to accept it.
Sep
29
comment PDF exports of ArrayPlot's are fuzzy (OS X)
@J.M. Yes, same problem. The only difference this time is that, when this second PDF is displayed at "Actual Size" magnification, the plot has the same size as it does in the Mathematica GUI.