Questions tagged [conditional]
Questions about programming or mathematical constructs that enable verification, selection, or branching behavior when one or more criteria are determined to be True.
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Condition inside pure function
Why condition /; not work inside pure function?
Suppose we have:
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Compute the area of the union of the intersections of two conditions
I have four conditions over the two-dimensional domain $x,y\in[a,b]$. I want to use NIntegrate to compute the area of the union of the intersection of the two ...
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How can I use WhenEvent with multiple conditions inside NDSolve?
I would like to use WhenEvent but I'm not getting what I want: I set the initial condition var\epsilon=0;
I want var\epsilon to change continuously over time, from to 0.1 if s'[t]>=0 or to -0.1 if s'[...
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Optimization of conditions applying
Let we have some data generator, e.g. lazy tuples or permutations.
I need to select data by some conditions cond1, cond2, …, up to 5-6 conditions.
All of them need ...
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Parallelize a "For" cycle
I'm trying to parallelize a simple routine inside a "for" loop. Essentially, I need to compute the roots of a function $f(x)$ that depends on the discrete parameters $d$ and $R_0$. However, ...
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How to plot multiple functions with conditions that assign values of some of them to be greater than the others?
i am trying to plot multiple functions in mathematica but i would like to do this in such a way that the values of two of my functions are always greater than the other two.
my functions are:
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Restrict the domain of a function (and plot) it) when it depends on the value of a parameter [closed]
I know similar questions have been asked, but I am very new at Mathematica and other questions/answers are quite complex and do not suit the code I want to write.
I want to restrict the domain of the ...
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Weird behavior of Which with lists [closed]
To demonstrate my problem, let's create a little function:
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Check the existence of roots based on parameters
I have a function which has one variable $r$ and two parameters $M,\lambda$. Whether or not the function has roots, depend on the parameters $M,\lambda$. I want to obtain a parameter space such that ...
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Nested If question
Using the following code, I got the first two piecewise equations right but the third one returns -99.
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Efficient and compact replacement for Association in the following case
Consider the following association:
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Why does Select not work here?
Why does this not work? It returns empty while I expect the first two elements are selected.
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How to check if solution to NSolve exists?
I'm trying to created a table where the entries are values of x, either given by x/.NSolve[...][[1]] or a fixed value x0 if there is no numerical solution. Is there a way to find the truth value for ...
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Generate all adjacency matrices of size $n=4$ s.t. $a_{ij}\neq a_{ij}$ and $a_{ii}==0$
I want to generate a list of adjacency matrices of size $n=4$ s.t.
The diagonal is zero: $a_{ii}=0$ for all $i\in\lbrace 1,2,...,n\rbrace$
There are no 2-cyles, i.e. if $a_{ij}==1$, then $a_{ji}==0$ ...
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Selecting the specific values from a table and saving in a table:
I have the following code:
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How to discard the repeating elements of a list [closed]
Lets say there is a random list of expressions :
a={Sin[x], Sin[3 x], Sin[4 x], Sin[x], Sin[4 x], Sin[x], Sin [5 x], Sin[3 x], Sin[5 x]}
Plot[{a}, {x, 0, 2 Pi}]
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Preventing Evaluation of Body of Manipulate
Overall, I am looking for a way to prevent the evaluation of the body of Manipulate until the controls meet a certain condition.
For example, consider the following....
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The fastest and most scalable way to write a nested loop
The problem is to find the weights {w1,w2,w3,w4} that satisfy the condition. Which is the fastest and most scalable way (e.g. for 10000 weights) to write this ...
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How to select elements from a list of pairs based on first element belonging to a different list?
This is my very first question and I really appreciate this ability and thankful the community.
I have two lists and need to select only those pairs from the first list, first element of which is ...
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Remove conditional for ThreeJSymbol [closed]
When I evaluate:
Assuming[3 > jj >= 1 && jj \[Element] Integers,
ThreeJSymbol[{jj, 0}, {1, 0}, {2, 0}]]
it outputs an expression saying that if
$3 &...
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Is there any alternative for conditional plot that gives a more precise result in a shorter time?
I have the given function $Func$ and want to have a plot of those domains where $-3\leq Func\leq 3$ in precise details. I am using ...
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How to speedup comparison in the following example?
I have the following problem: I would like to generate random values of some variable $z$ obeying some distribution, but simultaneously within the interval zmin<...
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Creating a cycle with conditions
I would like to arrange a gift exchange between 5 people, Alice, Bob, Carl, Danny, and Ellen, and I would like the gifts to be passed in a randomly created cycle (B->C->A->D->E->B), for ...
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Removing "spikes" in data
Imagine I have a data set which gives me the following ListLinePlot
Is it possible to define a function over the data set that removes the "spikes" ...
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Is there an alternative way to obtain the given plot directly from the equation $f(a,b,x)=0$? [duplicate]
I have the equation $f(a,b,x)=0$ where the function $f(a,b,x)$ is as follows
f[a_, b_, x_] := (x^2 + 2) (Sin[5 a] + Sin[3 b]) - 3 (x^2 + 1) Sin[x]
I want to plot ...
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How to write a condition for FindMinimum correctly
I would like that, when finding the minimum, the FindMinimum analyzes the variables (x and y) each time and finds q, depending on the current values of x and y. Can I somehow write this condition into ...
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How to plot a function with different conditions (if or which or piecewise)
The given function is
This function is plotted to be
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Dynamic 2-state toggle button difficulty returning to original state
I had this working fine this morning, but I proceeded to refactor, and somehow I cannot get it to toggle like before. It does initialize, and it does go from state-1 to state-2 but not back to state-1....
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Contour plot within upper and lower bounds
I have a mathematical function $f(p,q)=10^{-10}\frac{p^4}{q^2}$. I want to make a contour plot within the region where $10^{-3}<f(p,q)<10^{+3}$. I have tried the following three codes (one is ...
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What's wrong with or? [closed]
Consider
Clear[x];
x = 2;
x < 2.9 || x > 3.1
This yields
True
So, everything is o. k. (interesting)
But when you replace ...
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Solve conditional term with mathematica [duplicate]
Solve mathematical conditional expressions with Mathematica, e.g if $x+y=3$ and $xy=-1$ , what is result $\frac{x^3+y^3}{x^2+y^2}$
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Expectation function vs Integral function
I am having trouble understanding how Mathematica computes a conditional expectation.
Consider random variables $v\sim N(0,\tau_v^{-1})$, $s_0=v+\epsilon_0$, $s_1=v+\eta+\epsilon_1$, where $\epsilon_0\...
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Table mix with If function [closed]
Anyone could explain to me which problem is? after running the function "Table" combining with "If" as below, but the result is not a value instead.
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How to find that this be always real number
I don't know how to find out this is be real number for l[y]?
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Unexpected behaviour of Condition with Cases/MatchQ?
When using the unsorted version of Complement in this question I met the following unexpected result,
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How to generate a list of random numbers with conditional statements
I want to generate a list of numbers with certain conditions.
Eg.
First I generated 10 random numbers between 1 and 20.
M1= RandomReal[{1,20},10]
Now I want to ...
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Conditional mathematical expression [closed]
I want to produce A, B, C, D and E values between 0 and 2*pi with two conditions:
`A!=B!=C!=D!=E`
And
(C,D,E)!=n*pi/2
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If or Piecewise dependent coefficients in NDSolveValue
This:
but the following (placing the partials inside the If) does not. Any suggestions?
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Modify list elements if last two entries are equal
Suppose I have a list as follows
{{1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3}, {1, 1, 3, 4, 1, 1}}
and I want to check the last two coordinates are equal or not. If that is the case then I ...
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Plotting a conditional expression
I'm trying to plot the feasible region of a maximization problem with PlotRegion3D. This region is the intersection of two constraints and I'd like to plot also the ...
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Select with simplification does not work
Given a list, I want to find all elements that have positive imaginary part.
For example, if $y,z\in\mathbb R$ and $a>0$ and the list is $\{ ia+y, -ia+z\}$, then the result should be $\{ia+y\}$.
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Simplifying conditional expression
I have an expression of the form
ConditionalExpression[I a + y1, {True, True, True, True}]
as a result of some computation. (The expected answer is just ...
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How to use an "otherwise" clause in `Which`
I want to classify a set of vectors according to the number and position of zeroes they contain. The components of the vectors are non-negative. I'm using
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