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Questions related to handling built-in symbols and functions, for example why they behave a certain (possibly unexpected) way.

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Factor gives non-factorized result

The Factor built-in function is usually idempotent, namely applying it twice gives the same result. However, in the following example it is not. Is that expected? ...
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Palette that gets single keystroke as input

I could find many examples of user-made Palette with many buttons in it. And drawing-tools Palette is not user-made, but it accepts a single keystroke as input. (In ...
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"ParticleData[] " command $Failed

I am using Mathematica version 13.2. I am trying to use Mathematica's "ParticleData" command to get the information about the particles directly from PDG. But, whenever I am trying to ...
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How to use Switch for more than one switchable arguments (in a compilable way)?

Consider some example of usage of the function Switch: ...
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Get All Discrete Univariate Distributions with Symbolic Parameters

I am trying to get all Discrete Univariate Distributions with symbolic arguments from any place in Wolfram Language system. For example this guide: http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/...
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Test whether an expression contains a particular pattern

How to test whether an expression contains a particular pattern ? I made a function for myself that tests whether an expression contains Plus or not. ...
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Basic question Sort criteria

Can you explain the following codes? (output of codes) I know that there is the default ordering for any expression in Mathematica and Sort uses the default ...
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Why do some functions, or at least, PowersRepresentations, run far faster on subsequent calls? What determines this behaviour?

Say I run the following: PowersRepresentations[4782969,4,2] and it takes about 2 minutes. If I call it again it takes only about 0.0005 seconds. What determines ...
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Defining function for decimal value k[0.5+0.5]

k[1 + 1] = 2; k[1 + 0.5] = 1.5; k[0.5 + 0.5] = 1; {k[2], k[1.5], k[1]} // TableForm 2 1.5 k[1] Can you explain this phenomenon? I think the output should be ...
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What is MergeDifferences?

My version is 13.2.0 for Mac OS X ARM (64-bit) (November 18, 2022). The symbol MergeDifferences appears in the auto-completion ...
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How can I create a shortcut to convert "normal Symbol" to Formal Symbol?

I'd like to create a shortcut to convert a selected symbol, say \[Delta], into its rough equivalent formal symbol (i.e., ...
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Need a few built-in Symbols (functions) whose Options are a mix of Rule-s and DelayedRule-s [closed]

This is for examples in documentation I'm writing for a ResourceFunction["PrettyOptions"] (look for it soon) that is close to completion. Asking for most ...
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`SequencePosition` doing unnecessary work

SequencePosition returns only the first sequence in a list that matches a given pattern with SequencePosition[list,pattern,1] ...
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Write an expression that queries all of MMA to find the top M Symbols with the most Options or M Symbols having N Options?

I apologize, but I'm way over my pay-grade on this one, so I don't have any code to share that needs correcting. That is because I really don't know how to start this. I feel like this has a very easy ...
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How to check if a cached expression Once[...] exists to prevent a generated Message of Failed when Unset

I need to occasionally programmatically Unset a Once[expr] expression from within a function without generating an error if the ...
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ContinuousMarkovProcess built-in function

Is the built-in function ContinuousMarkovProcess in Mathematica is the well-known Gillespie algorithm?
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How to copy infinity symbol as ∞ and not as \[Infinity]

FromCharacterCode[8734] (* ∞ *) No matter how I copy whether as plaintext or input text or whether it is inside string like <...
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How to convert a list of indexed variable names to a list of formal symbols?

I have the following list of indexed variable names: list = {x1,x2,x3,x4}; I would like to build a list of formal symbols from the above list, i.e. ...
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How to restore the compile function from FunctionCompileExportByteArray

We can compile a function into a ByteArray object: ...
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Why does my simple string function fail to grab the only element in a List?

The idea is to normalize a string before processing it to extract information from it. Strings may come with embedded outer brackets which are easily stripped or as elements of a true list. This is ...
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Ensure that Options for built-in symbols are the original defaults

I often create symbols (no args) or functions (with args) in which common options (and styles) are set in body and unique opts within args for managing multiple calls to built-in functions. these spit ...
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Sequence in superscript

The code DisplayForm@SuperscriptBox[a,b,c] makes a invalid box. It still renders like $a^b$, but it's red with an error message (as it should be). That being said,...
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Evaluating PlusMinus to 2 decimal answers

How do I evaluate and expand an expression containing PlusMinus such that: N[PlusMinus[1, 1]] returns 2, 0 I'm stuck at ...
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Packed/Unpacked array - what object/like 0 or 1?/how to check/ [duplicate]

In Mathematica, there is a concept called packed array. ...
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How to get the action diagram when the group act on a set?

I previously thought the orbital map would achieve this, but as the current answer or discuss in the comment. I realized that was wrong. And the Close behavior advice tells me "Needs details or ...
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Two questions about `Infinity` [closed]

These are 2 small questions about Infinity. They are not related each other. Q1) ...
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Grouping consecutive elements at specified positions

Let L1={1,2,4,6,8,9,10,14,15,17,21,22,72,76,80,96,106,116,117} Question1) Group from 10-th to 14-th elements in L1. So that the ...
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Extracting list structure from nested list

Can we construct a function f, g in mathematica such that For any list L, g[Flatten[L],f[L]] ...
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Theoretical Timing possible? (not changes for each evaluation)

Is there a method to measure theoretic time load (hope +theoretic memory load) of an evaluation? They should not change - always generate same value after pressing Enter key(=evaluation). Hope they ...
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Construct a pure function containing built-in 'Sequence'

I guessed the output for (Sequence[#, 7]&)[3] should be Sequence[3,7] But my guess was wrong. See the screenshot: And I ...
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Using < or <= make different results when sort

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The square of Abs of a complex number

We all know that 4^2 + 22^2 = 500 Is there a natural way to generates 500 from the complex number ...
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Calculate the "intersection" for the given case?

Consider the following task: There are two cross-sections: the first one is located in the $yz$ plane (the case 1), and the second one is in the $xy$ plane (the case 2). In the spherical coordinate ...
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What is the purpose of StrokeForm?

Symbol System`StrokeForm is present already in Mathematica version 8 (but not in version 5.2). Currently, it is used in built-in themes, for example: ...
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Using the symbol of the system of equations [duplicate]

Part 1 I'd like to know how to use the symbol of system of equations (left curly braces). I tried the following code: Part 2 How can I add a third equation?
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Symbol of system of equations

I'm wondering if there is a way to use the symbol (the left curly bracket) of a system of equations. So far I found only the following "symbol": I need to remove the two conditions. EDIT2: ...
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Is there a comprehensive list of most common or most important native Message-s (w/tags) for errors and Failed?

Yes I understand how to use Messages[symbol] but that doesn't help much. I have no idea which important ones I may have missed in my search or even how many exist. ...
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How can I clear the symbol \[ImaginaryJ] for use for another purpose?

By default it is the same as imaginary unit, but I want to use it for split-complex numbers.
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Separate colours of an image

Since LAB colour space is based on opponent color theory, an image in 'LABColor' is made up of red/green, yellow blue separations. I am trying to separate an image into its distinct colour components (...
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NMaximize - global maximum fail - How to?

Problem : Let x,y,z be non-negative real number whose sum is 1. Find maximum of 0.2x + 0.2y + x^2*z + y*z^2 What I did first was reducing variable. ...
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Largest k such that p^k divides n

(Here all variables are integer.) Is there a built-in function f[n,p] such that f[n,p] = largest k such that p^k divides n For ...
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Can I tell whether a symbol is build-in (part of the System` library)?

I'd like a function that checks whether a symbol is a predefined part of the language or not. More generally, it might check whether it's part of a given package. ...
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Built-in functions on the LHS won't pattern-match

I have this pattern-matching problem: F[X_,myminus[X_]]:=0 F[1,myminus[1]] Works. ...
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AnyTrue is too good (compared to MemberQ)

Let L be a list of integers, and ⓝ denote an explicit integer. I've thought the most natural way to tell whether ⓝ belongs to L is In[1] MemberQ[L, ⓝ] But there ...
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Definition of large expression - makes PC freezed

In[1] A=Range[10^4];?A Out[1] (* definition of A*) It works for 10^4. But if I increase the number to 10^6 ...
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Construct really identical function (the same as Length)

In[1] Length[Unevaluated[1 + 1 + 1 + 1]] Out[1] 4 Q1) Can we construct a function named f, such that ...
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Check an input matrix M contains any nonzero diagonal matrix element or not

Is there a way to easily check an input matrix M contains any nonzero diagonal matrix element or not? For example, if the M contains any nonzero diagonal matrix element, Output: True. if the M ...
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Get list of special characters

I recently found that \[Gradient] and \[InlinePart] both expand (contract) to special symbols in MMA. So far as I can tell (see ...
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Is there a function in Mathematica to combine/decompose sinusoids? [closed]

Lets say I have some combination of an arbitrary number of sinusoids with potentially varying magnitudes, phase angles and frequencies that I would like to compose into a singular sinusoid, is there a ...
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How to reconstruct a complicated built-in function (e.g. for modification or use in a version that does not have it yet) [duplicate]

Is it possible to extract the definitions for a built-in function to reconstruct a similar user defined function. This would be useful to port new mathematica functionality to older versions or to ...
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