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I've been a user of Mathematica since version 2.2. I am a physicist by training and engineer by trade, and a bit of a poster child for engineering applications of Mathematica. The other M product people look at me funny but are secretly jealous.


May
4
awarded  Nice Question
May
4
comment In what situation is the use of Directive required?
I was just putting the same counterexample together when your comment appeared. The doc center says Directive is new in 6, but I seem to recall it in much older versions.
Apr
20
awarded  Nice Answer
Apr
18
asked Can I place a link to a package file (.m) in my Applications folder
Mar
24
comment How do I seamlessly migrate from the older Units package to Mathematica 9's Quantity objects?
@rm -rf, thanks for the edits. Much better now.
Mar
24
asked How do I seamlessly migrate from the older Units package to Mathematica 9's Quantity objects?
Mar
24
answered How do I seamlessly migrate from the older Units package to Mathematica 9's Quantity objects?
Mar
24
answered Implementing CGS unit system in Mathematica 9
Mar
23
answered How to apply a function to a list of tuples
Mar
15
answered Prevent Part[] from trying to extract parts of symbolic expressions
Mar
2
answered Is it possible to select outliers on a graph and determine the index of the outliers?
Feb
28
revised How to dynamically toggle curves on/off in a crowded Plot?
minor grammar corrections
Feb
28
comment How to dynamically toggle curves on/off in a crowded Plot?
It feels wrong to accept my own answer. If that violates the etiquette of the site I will unaccept it.
Feb
28
accepted How to dynamically toggle curves on/off in a crowded Plot?
Feb
28
answered How to dynamically toggle curves on/off in a crowded Plot?
Feb
26
awarded  Scholar
Feb
26
comment How to dynamically toggle curves on/off in a crowded Plot?
This is nice. It works on pre-9 Mathematica, gives several means of turning the curves off and on, and has lots of low-level Dynamic functionality that I can take apart and learn from. It also adds visually appealing legends to pre-9. I wish I had this a year ago. I actually wrote something similar, including the trick of stashing the legend text in Tooltip, but yours is much better.
Feb
25
awarded  Supporter
Feb
24
comment How to dynamically toggle curves on/off in a crowded Plot?
@Nasser Perhaps, but the buttons just seem kludgy. There is a Tuftian elegance in reusing the "ink" already on the "page" by dual-purposing the legend.
Feb
24
awarded  Self-Learner