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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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### Can one identify the design patterns of Mathematica?

... or are they unnecessary in such a high-level language? I've been thinking about programming style, coding standards and the like quite a bit lately, the result of my current work on a mixed .Net/...
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### Why is D[a[b][c],a[b]] equal to 1[c]?

Background: I had the same issue as described here, and I went to extend Mr.Wizard’s code such that a[b][c] would be shown as $a_b^c$. Issue: To my surprise, ...
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### VectorPlot3D of the Electric Field E as Determined from the Potential V

I am new to Mathematica and I am trying to create the electric field $F$ from the electric potential $V$ (using arbitrary distances) and then plot the subsequent vector graph to show that the electric ...
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### How do we input powers of indexed variables?

I have tried (a[i])^2 and alternatively (a^2)[i] Apparently both seem to work, but I was wondering what was the right way ...
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### How do I get Mathematica to recognize this simplification? (ReplaceAll pattern rule)

I want Mathematica to understand this $$(\sum_{k=0}^n a_k)(\sum_{j=0}^n b_j) = (\sum_{k=0}^n \sum_{j=0}^n a_k b_j)$$ I have tried this ...
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### Compute the half width and full width at half maximum (HWHM / FWHM) of a mathematical expression

I have managed to compute the half width at half maximum (HWHM) and full width at half maximum (FWHM) of a sinc function through the code below. ...
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### How to recall set variables in simple Product[] and Sum[] functions?

I'm new to Mathematica but have been trying to write a code that will define new variables based off of variables preset by a user. I'm allowing them to define a variable ...
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### table parametric plot ode

I have a series of ODEs I'd like to plot (a double pendulum specifically) Where I'm comparing my own "handwritten" ODE to that of System modelers solutions. This is mostly an exercise to ensure the ...
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### Finding Anagrams of given length from DictionaryLookup

What I'm trying to find are the 4 letter words in the Mathematica dictionary that have the most anagrams and the amount of anagrams these have each. But I can't seem to find all the 4 letter words in ...
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### Why is the first argument of the SetDelayed evaluated?

In[1]: f=g; In[2]: SetDelayed[f[x_],x^2]; In[3]: ?f Globalf f=g In[4]: ?g Globalg g[x_]:=x^2 However, SetDelayed has the ...
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### WL terminology: evaluate, call, invoke, use, etc

A WL (Mma) program is a sequence of expressions to be evaluated, which generally involves applying commands and functions to actual arguments. What is the accepted terminology for what I think of as ...
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### Plot 3D doesn't show anything

Good Evening, I defined a function which is composed of other several functions. Mathematica compiles well but I can't get a plot and I do not understand way. Can anyone help me with the code and ...
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### Define scalar quantity that squares to 1?

My equations contain different cases which differ only by some signs. So in order to work with all cases simultaneously, I introduce a placeholder for a sign: s[x] ...
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### Why doesn't CloudDeploy work in my desktop

I have difficulty in making CloudDeploy in my desktop. Does anyone know why ? Thanks Here is what I see: Here is the code if someone would like to test ...
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### How to map a function over a dimension in a matrix? [closed]

I have a function g[x,r] yielding a 3x1 vector, where x is a ...
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### Custom opaque operator with custom axioms?

Is there any way to define a custom opaque operator/function in Mathematica that satisfies custom axioms, so that the Mathematica engine can perform simplifications using those axioms? For example, ...