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Loops and subroutines [duplicate]
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Alternatives to procedural loops and iterating over lists in Mathematica
I am new to Mathematica and not familiar with functional programming. In particular, I have no idea on ...
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For loops in Mathematica [duplicate]
I'm actually the first time using loops in Mathematica. For example, I have:
For[i = 1, i <= n, i++,
For[j = 1, j <= n, j++, ....]
How it is possible now ...
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Seeking faster method than using Table and If together [duplicate]
See the example below. Is there any way to make this execute much faster and still get the same output ? I have read Conditionals slower than operators? but it didn't really help me as I can't seem to ...
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How should I go about writing more functional and list based code? [duplicate]
I've heard that Mathematica is usually faster when the code is list-based and/or uses a functional paradigm.
I'm still working on getting the hang of this; there are a lot of ...
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What are some general strategies to avoid using For loops? [duplicate]
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Iterating over lists in Mathematica
While there are some cases where a For loop might be reasonable, it's a general mantra – one I ...
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Want explanation of when different looping constructs are appropriate [duplicate]
For example when would you use a Do loop over a For loop? For which tasks would you use Map, ...
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What techniques have you employed to avoid loop in Mathematica? [duplicate]
It appears to me that loop in mathematica is very slow (compared with matlab). Since many people still use mathematica to finish their work, there must be some techniques to bypass this problem.
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What are the most common pitfalls awaiting new users?
As you may already know, Mathematica is a wonderful piece of software.
However, it has a few characteristics that tend to confuse new (and sometimes not-so-new) users. That can be clearly seen from ...
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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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Why should I avoid the For loop in Mathematica?
Some people advise against the use of For loops in Mathematica. Why? Should I heed this advice? What is wrong with For? What ...
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Map a function across a list conditionally
It seems that this is a really basic question, and I feel that the answer should be obvious to me. However, I am not seeing. Can you please help me? Thanks.
Suppose I have a list of data ...
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Are there any cases when For[] loops are reasonable?
To my mind the only reason for the existence of For[] loops in Mathematica is to allow new users with some experience in procedural programming languages to write ...
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How do I check if any element in a list is positive?
As a simple example of what I would like to do, suppose I have a list a of all real numbers. I would like to perform a simple check to see if some element of ...
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Scan vs. Map vs. Apply
I cannot understand the difference between Apply, Scan, and Map.
I have tried to play with ...
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Finding the midpoints of an ordered list of numbers
Suppose that I have an ordered list of numbers. The numbers in the list may be evenly spaced, but they may not be. Here are two examples, list1 and ...
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