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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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### Iterating with Do rather than NestList

This code below works fine for me. ...
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### For loop for two variable at the same time

Can I use for loop for two variables as example show below at the same time? for (int x = 0, y = 0; x < 10 && y < 10; x++, y++)
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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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### Achieve performance that is competitive with numpy [duplicate]

What are the best practices to ameliorate time performance of Mathematica? As a practical example how we can decrease timing below? ...
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### Converting Matlab code to Mathematica [closed]

I have following Matlab code: ...
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### How to speed up a process

I am wondering how to speed up the following code: Currently it takes more than two sec to be processed. ...
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### Loop doesn't hold the value

My program doesn't hold the value in a variable as I want it. I want to attach the calculated value as a list in a variable. What is wrong here? ...
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### Return is giving me a super-complicated Recursive result in Mathematica 7 [closed]

I'm new to Mathematica, coming from an R and Python background, I need to use Mathematica for my thesis. I have been trying to use Return[] like I'd use return() if I needed to in R. In my practice ...
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### What is primary, function computation or function application?

What is the order of computations here? g[x_]:=x^2; f[x_]:=Sqrt[g[x]]; Map[f, Range[100]] Does this code first gets $f(x)=x$ and then gives its values or for ...
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### For loop from a continous position [closed]

I have a matrix A, which has its elements being function of m, say A[m_]={m, -m*m+2, 5x+m, 3*m+2, -m*m*m, -3+m, m, 5*m*m-4*m, 2*m*m*m} Now, there is a double ...
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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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### Chi square minimisation wrt variables within an integration?

I'm trying to fit a model curve to some data by performing a chi square minimisation wrt three parameters $a,b$ and $NN$. The trouble I am having is that the variables with which I want to minimise ...