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### What is the point of tagset /:? [duplicate]

I'm teaching myself Mathematica and came across tagset. So I followed the example in the link, but seem to be missing the point. All of the below give me the same answer after assignment: that ...
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### How does Wolfram Language implement for enabling symbols to receive various forms of parameters? [duplicate]

How does the official implement a list/tuple of parameters that can be different in type and quantity as a whole? After re-read @Szabolcs's and @MichaelE2's comments. Finally, I accepted the ...
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### Understanding TagSetDelayed

I was reading What is the distinction between DownValues, UpValues, SubValues, and OwnValues? and I started to be confused with the part "Upvalues" of the first answer. Some of my confusion comes ...
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### What is exactly an element a[i] in mathematica? [duplicate]

I'm confused about the logic behind mathematica programming. We can have function that will be called doing $f[x]$, thus the element $f[x]$ can be seen as the return value of a function taking an ...
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### Scope of dummy variables used in defining a function

I define a function and then define another function, using the same name for the dummy variables as I used for the first function. Will Mathematica use the first definition in the second definition? ...
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### What makes a pattern more general?

This is a rewording of the question. The original post is below. How come that a pattern for an expression with a specific head is not more specific than a pattern for an expression with a generic ...
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### Get imaginary part of symbolic expression [duplicate]

I define ψ1 = Sqrt[Subscript[ρ, 1][t]] E^(I Subscript[θ, 1][t]); ψ2 = Sqrt[Subscript[ρ, 2][t]] E^(I Subscript[θ, 2][t]); and ...
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### Multiple Square Bracketed Function definition

I am familiar with the typical way of defining a function--such as f[x_,y_]:=x+y but I have not found a discussion of definitions such as ...
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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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### 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 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 ...