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### Can evaluation show what was evaluated along with results? [duplicate]

After I write and evauate the following lines in Mathematica: a = 1 b = 2 x = a + b It will show only the result : 3. I want mathematica to show the following ...
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### How to evaluate only arguments, but leave topmost expression unevaluated? [duplicate]

I want to represent expressions mostly in unevaluated form, but being able to evaluate it's subparts. For example, how to evaluate only arguments, but leave topmost expression unevaluated? For ...
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### Partial evaluation of a function [duplicate]

In the spirit of a previous question, this is a self-assigned exercise in order to understand how we can control expression evaluation with Mathematica. So, given the following function definition: <...
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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 apply or map a list of functions to a list of data?

Say I have a group of functions: f1[a_] := a * -1; f2[a_] := a * 100; f3[a_] := a / 10.0; and some data in a list: ...
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### Can we intelligently control evaluation in Thread?

This is a bid at creating a canonical Q&A. Many questions have been asked that come down to the fact that Thread evaluates its first argument before threading ...
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### How to properly inject iterators into table? [duplicate]

Goofing off on a prior question, I was fiddling with other methods, which led me to the need to inject a constructed set of iterators into a table construct. Now, ...
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### How can I evaluate only a single step of a recursive function?

Let's say have a simple recursive function for the Fibonacci sequence f[0] := 1 f[1] := 1 f[n_] := f[n - 1] + f[n - 2] but I want to see how it will expand in a ...