Questions tagged [bugs]
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Mathematica 10.0.x freezes in Initializing kernels
Bug caused by paclet update and fixed by paclet update.
I updated to Windows 10 and have been running Mathematica fine on it for over a month. For some reason, it has just stopped working. I don't ...
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6answers
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ColorData[“VisibleSpectrum”] is wrong?
Bug introduced in 10.0 or earlier and fixed in 11.1
I am trying to visualize the visible spectrum using the built-in ColorData["VisibleSpectrum"] function which "...
45
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1answer
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Transferring a large amount of data in parallel calculations
Bug fixed in version 11.1
Functions like MemberQ, FreeQ, etc. no longer unpack. Yay!
This question is inspired by one of @...
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Hyperlinks not preserved when saving in PDF format in MMA V10
Bug introduced in 10.0 or earlier and fixed in 11.0.0
I usually create my course contracts in Mathematica and then save them in PDF format. The notebooks include hyperlinks and these have ...
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2answers
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Input Aliases in Mathematica 10
Bug introduced in 10.0.0 and persisting through 11.1.1 or later
In Mathematica 9, typing in an input alias such as intt would result in the keyboard cursor ...
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2answers
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Why does Mathematica report that $\int_1^\infty\frac{\sin(\sqrt{x})}{\sqrt{x}}dx$ = $2\cos(1)$?
Bug introduced in 7.0 or earlier and fixed in 11.0
Mathematica 10 gives the following very odd result,
Integrate[Sin[Sqrt[x]]/Sqrt[x], {x, 1, ∞}]
(* 2 Cos[1] *)
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7answers
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How symbol lookup actually works
Bug introduced in V6 and fixed in V11.3
The behavior indeed changed but now the documentation is clear about it.
This code is inconsistent with the description from Power Programming with ...
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4answers
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Some indefinite integrals evaluate in 11.2 but not in 11.3 - what can be done?
Bug introduced in 11.3 and fixed in 12.0.0
Reported to Wolfram: [CASE:4032137]
These integrals evaluate in version 11.2 on windows but
when I tried them under version 11.3 they returned unevaluated.,...
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2answers
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Variable naming changes everything
Bug fixed in 10.0.0
I am having a rather unusual problem I do not understand with Mathematica where renaming one of the variables of my function causes the function to stop "working". Here is the ...
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4answers
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Error changing Dataset using Part
Update
It was a bug in the documentation of V10.0, this functionality was not implemented yet, and V10.1 changed the documentation, removing it. It's a pity, because it's a very useful operations, ...
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3answers
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Mathematica 10 Notebook Fonts Look Bad
Bug introduced in 10.0.0 and persisting through 10.3.0 or later
I've upgraded my home installation of Mathematica from version 9 to 10 today on a Windows 8.1 machine, and I'm getting a weird font ...
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4answers
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What is the difference between Dynamic[x] and Dynamic[ h[x] ] for DynamicModule variables?
Bug introduced in 9.0 or earlier and persisting through 12.0
In 11.3 it is even worse. An example from the accepted answer with a Slider is now broken too:
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2answers
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eigenvector bug?
Bug introduced in 7.0.1 or earlier and fixed in 10.0.0
I have a fairly simple $3\times3$ complex matrix,
$$
M=\left(
\begin{array}{ccc}
\frac{7}{2}-\frac{i}{2} & -1+i & \frac{1}{2}+\frac{5 i}...
37
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1answer
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Parallelize Map and ParallelMap
Bug introduced in 8.0 and fixed in 11.2
It is stated in the documentation that
Parallelize[Map[f, expr]] is equivalent to ...
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2answers
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$\sum_{k=1}^{\infty }\left\lfloor\frac{5}{5^k}\right\rfloor$ giving wrong answer?
Bug introduced in 7.0 or earlier and fixed in 11.0.1
When I try to evaluate the following:
$$\sum_{k=1}^{\infty }\Bigg\lfloor\frac{5}{5^k}\Bigg\rfloor$$
using
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2answers
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Eigenvalues broken in Version 12.0
Bug introduced in 12.0.
The following code calculates the eigenvalues of a certain complex matrix, which come in pairs of opposite complex numbers. Therefore one can check whether the sum of all ...
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2answers
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String-manipulation bugs in v10.1
Introduced in 10.1, fixed in 10.2; fixed via paclet update in 10.1.
The new version 10.1 has introduced some strange (possibly buggy) behaviour compared to v10.0:
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2answers
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Debugging memory leaks
I've written my incredibly complex, incredibly elegant analysis function, that works great on small test data. But when I run it on my real (bigger) data set it keeps running out of memory. It turns ...
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2answers
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Mathematica stuck in “running” for every calculation I attempt, kernel error
Bug introduced in 11.1.1 and fixed in 11.1.1
Bug was caused by a paclet update and fixed by a paclet update.
I downloaded Mathematica this morning to do an implicit polar plot. I attempt to run the ...
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1answer
548 views
Why is multidimensional Reverse slow?
Bug introduced in 6.0 or earlier and persisting through 11.1.1 or later
I have found that multidimensional Reverse is ~10 times slower than exact ...
34
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2answers
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GroupBy twice gives different results
Bug introduced in 7.0 or earlier and persisting through 11.1
It took me quite a lot of time to finally trace down to this strange output. I really don't know why.
First, I create a list
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2answers
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Bug in mathematica analytic integration?
I found Mathematica provides me a wrong answer for a relatively simple analytically solvable integral:
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3answers
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No warning when extrapolating with Plot
One of the most annoying "features" of Mathematica is that the Plot family does extrapolation on InterpolatingFunctions without ...
34
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0answers
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Front end goes wild with named slots
Bug introduced in 10 and persisting through 12.0.0
Assume the following simple expression
{#"Test"}&
Now go in front of the ...
33
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2answers
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How do I disable the stack tracing feature in Mathematica 11?
Bug was introduced in 11.0 and persisting through 11.1
It looks like the Mathematica 11 stack tracing feature (see red ellipsis in front of any warning message) prevents the garbage collector from ...
33
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1answer
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What is wrong with triangle PlotMarkers in v.10.0.0?
Bug introduced in 10.0.0 and fixed in 10.0.1
In Mathematica 10.0.0 we have built-in graphical triangle PlotMarkers. Let us look closer on them:
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33
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1answer
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Complex eigenvalues from a sparse Hermitian matrix
Bug introduced in 9.0 or earlier and persisting through 12.0.
I notice in the following example that wrong complex eigenvalues are resulted if calculating from a Hermitian sparse matrix, which should ...
33
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1answer
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Terrifying performance decrease for contour/density plots in v10.1 -> 10.3
Bug introduced in 10.3 and fixed in 10.3.1
I setup for download a test dataset at http://www.inrim.it/~magni/cm.dat.gz (a set of 64800 triplets x,y,z).
The behavior can be reproduced with the ...
33
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1answer
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Version 11 cannot print properly?
Bug introduced in 10.0 and persisting through 11.2 or later
I have two problems with printing in version 10.
First, I can't print correctly with a setting of printing scale
For example, I have some ...
32
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2answers
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Graphics elements do not line up perfectly in exported PDFs
Bug introduced in version 9.0 and persisting through 10.4
Graphics elements do not always line up perfectly in exported PDFs using "Save As..." method.
Take, for example:
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2answers
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Specifying non-conflicting PlotTheme options
A bug or limitation in 10.0.0 affects a few of these examples; it was resolved in 10.1.0.
I am trying out Mathematica 10 on https://programming.wolframcloud.com. ...
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2answers
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DeleteDuplicates not deleting duplicates
Bug introduced in 9.0 and fixed in 10.0.0
It is not surprising that DeleteDuplicates[{5,5.}] returns {5,5.} because ...
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1answer
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What calendar is Mathematica using for dates in the distant past?
It appears that Mathematica treats all dates as proleptic Gregorian dates by default, a hypothesis that can be easily tested by using AbsoluteTime to compute the ...
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2answers
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Huge bug involving MultinormalDistribution?
Bug introduced in 8.0 or earlier and fixed in 11.1
I found a strange behavior regarding the CDF of the bivariate Normal distribution
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30
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2answers
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Strange ::usage behavior in v9
Bug fixed in 9.0.1
Something has gone wrong with usage in Mathematica 9. Would someone tell me how to fix it?
I define a function ...
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3answers
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Is there an issue tracker for already reported Mathematica bugs?
Since I'm working at least 50% on Linux which is probably the operating system which gets not so much attention from Wolfram, I find new bugs regularly. What bothers me the most is, that tracking a ...
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Save as pdf broken in version 10.0.2?
Fixed in 10.1
It looks like the save as pdf is broken after I update to version 10.0.2. The labels in the plot become a mess.
Are there ways to fix it? The Export ...
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Is MathieuC for moderately large imaginary arguments broken?
Bug introduced in 3.0 and persisting through 12.0
(reported as CASE:3208982)
I'm trying to plot MathieuC[-3,0.3,I x] for $x\in[0,10]$, and here's what I get even ...
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3answers
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Generating 250 random points crashes the kernel, but not 249
Fixed in 10.1.0.
Consider the following function, which generates uniformly random points on the surface of the 2-sphere:
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3answers
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Assign a randomly generated list to variable
Bug introduced in 10.0.0 and fixed in 10.0.2
I don't know if this is a silly question, but it really baffles me. So please help me understand this behavior.
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29
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1answer
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many indefinite integrals do not evaluate in 10.1, looking for the cause
Bug introduced in 10.1 and fixed in 10.2
Many integrals no longer evaluate in V 10.1 when they did in 10.0.2
Here are some 23 integrals as an example, that all produced results in V 10.0.2, but now ...
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1answer
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How to speed up TextJustification in Mathematica 10
Based on this question: - Version 7 print environment - I set up two 10 page test documents in version 7.0.1 and version 10.1. The version 7 document exported to PDF in 4.18 seconds whereas the ...
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4answers
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FullSimplify wrongly reduces expression to zero
Bug introduced in 9.0 and persisting through 11.0
I get the following output with a fresh Mathematica (ver 10.0.2.0 on Mac) session
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2answers
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Default behaviour of Hash[expr] and hashing in different versions of Mathematica
In different versions of Mathematica, Wolfram silently changed the behaviour of Hash when the algorithm is not specified explicitly
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28
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3answers
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How can I restore the old ImageCompose behaviour?
Bug fixed in 11.3
Update
This issue caught me out again so I contacted support once more. They have confirmed that the development team considers the new behaviour to be correct and claim that "...
28
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1answer
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Unintended edge extensions in 3D Cube rendering
Bug introduced in 7.0.1 or earlier -- persists through 10.1.0 or later
I have arranged a certain configuration of cubes in 3D using the following code:
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3answers
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Symbolic integration error
fixed in 10.1 (windows)
I'm running Mathematica 10.0.0 and encountered a disturbing error in the symbolic integration of a rather simple function
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28
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0answers
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Bug in RegionMember?
Bug introduced in 10.0 and persisting through 12.0
RegionMember is new in 10.0
A commenter notes that the issue is with ...
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1answer
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In 10.1.0 BenchmarkPlot doesn't work?
Bug introduced in 10.1
This bug was resolved in 10.2.0, but another bug was introduced in 10.3.0 persisting through 10.3.1 and finally resolved in 10.4
In Mathematica 10.1.0 and 10.3.0 ...
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3answers
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Count works differently depending on how an association was created
Bug introduced in 10.4 and fixed in 11.3.0
I create two associations, that are supposed to be exactly the same. And then I want to count the elements at the second level. And I get different results:
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