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Where can I find examples of good Mathematica programming practice?

I consider myself a pretty good Mathematica programmer, but I'm always looking out for ways to either improve my way of doing things in Mathematica, or to see if there's something nifty that I haven't ...
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How to efficiently find positions of duplicates?

Is there an efficient way to find the positions of the duplicates in a list? I would like the positions grouped according to duplicated elements. For instance, given ...
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How to Delete Elements from List1 appearing in List2?

I'm new to functional programming of Mathematica and trying to remove one list of assorted elements from another. However I only find functions working with the Index rather than the values itself: ...
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Counting the population of integers

Suppose that myData is a list of sublists. Each sublist has a length of one or greater and contains any number of replicates of the integers 1, 2, 3, and 4. I ...
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Add to matrix missing elements (for list of time series)

This question is an extension of the 43122. I’ve looked through many interesting post (like this) but (as always) missed the direct matching. So the setting is simple: ...
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Combining two lists [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I obtain an intersection of two or more list of lists conditioned on the first element of each sub-list? I would like to combine two lists. ...
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Combining more than two lists by first column as index

Please bear with me. It might be easy but its been hard for me. I have say three lists: ...
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All values for a function with two arguments without Outer

Given two lists $l_a = \{a_1, a_2, a_3\}$, $l_b = \{b_1, b_2, b_3, b_4\}$ and some function $f$ accepting two arguments, how can I produce a list of all values $f(a, b)$ for $a\in l_a$ and $b \in l_b$ ...
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Complement on pre-sorted lists

Is there any way to instruct Complement to skip the sorting part? If the answer is no (likely), the next question would be: how can I remove from a sorted list ...
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Can someone explain this code for joining two lists by the first element of each sublist?

Background (which may be skipped, unless context is needed) I've recently begun learning Mathematica (and only up to chapter 3 of Wellin), but wanted to write some code to get a better feel for ...
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Join lists of lists with unique id

Sorry for the vague title, but I can't describe my problem properly and shortly. I am maintaining a list of players and their games with the following form: ...
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Deleting elements on a list by the first element of another list

I was trying to make this L1 = {{2, 1}, {6, 4}, {8, 7}, {9, 5}}; L2 = {{2, 9}, {9, 6}}; L = Union[L2 , L1] And I used this: ...