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Feb
9
comment Can someone explain this snippet: (#[#] &)[#[#][#] &]
Yes, it's a headache-generating function.
Feb
9
answered Solution Curves and Order of Evaluation Question
Feb
9
comment Obtaining the square-root of a general positive definite matrix
I'm afraid I don't understand your question. Test what?
Feb
8
revised How do you draw the plane on which two vectors lie?
added 18 characters in body
Feb
8
comment How do you draw the plane on which two vectors lie?
@J.M. You are, of course, correct--thanks for the correction! I am fixing my answer accordingly.
Feb
8
revised How to fix errors in Gram-Schmidt process when using random vectors?
Changed to use Normalize
Feb
8
comment Obtaining the square-root of a general positive definite matrix
Actually, I get the same answer regardless of whether or not I assume the elements are real. I wonder if you're running into memory problems or if you're using an older version of Mathematica? I'm using 8.0.4.
Feb
8
answered Obtaining the square-root of a general positive definite matrix
Feb
7
revised How do you draw the plane on which two vectors lie?
Just reordered lines to make it easier to read.
Feb
7
answered How do you draw the plane on which two vectors lie?
Feb
7
awarded  Nice Question
Feb
5
accepted ListPlot with each point a different color and a legend bar
Feb
5
comment ListPlot with each point a different color and a legend bar
Very helpful! Many thanks to you and the others who posted answers and suggestions!!!
Feb
4
revised How to fix errors in Gram-Schmidt process when using random vectors?
Moved the explanation from comments.
Feb
4
revised ListPlot with each point a different color and a legend bar
edited tags
Feb
4
awarded  Autobiographer
Feb
4
asked ListPlot with each point a different color and a legend bar
Feb
3
answered How to fix errors in Gram-Schmidt process when using random vectors?
Feb
3
awarded  Nice Answer
Feb
3
comment Selectively Mapping over elements in a List
+1 for Vitaly's answer because his approach only calls AstronomicalData[#,"Image"] once for each moon, whereas my approach calls it twice.