Questions tagged [core-language]
Questions on the basic structure of the Mathematica language (Wolfram language) including atomic data types, syntax etc
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How can I translate some JavaScript code into Mathematica code? [on hold]
I am a programmer and would like to understand another field outside of the procedural thinking of if-else and for.
I would ...
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Around usage results
Why is
Around[10, 1]^2
+- 20
and
Around[10, 1] Around[10, 1]
giving 100 +- 14 ?
Just curious I would suspect them to ...
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Deriving a list of time differences from a column in a dataset and appending the list as a new column
I know it's a beginner question, but I've struggled with it for some time now and can't find a solution.
I have a dataset consisting of timestamps, where I've managed to compute the time differences ...
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What is the accessibility of a package's `Private` context variables?
I've been reading up on how Mathematica handles contexts, $Context, $ContextPath, and a few of the tutorials they have on ...
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How to trace value assigned to local variable(variables in Module)?
Bug introduced in v10.1 or earlier and persists through v11.3
CASE:4240757
Here is my code:
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Design completion idea for Position [closed]
This is not exactly a question but rather a suggestion for a design which I think would greatly improve Mathematica. Before I put this to Wolfram Research I would like to see what other people think ...
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Computation with arrays of numbers
My code is
m = RandomVariate[NormalDistribution[], 100];
c = 0.1;
f1 = RandomVariate[NormalDistribution[], 100];
F = Sqrt[c]*m + Sqrt[1 - c]*f1;
I would like to ...
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2answers
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My function for computing a partial derivative generates an error message [closed]
Apologies, I'm still new at Mathematica. I have defined the function
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2answers
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Using a Do-loop to find divisors mod 13 [closed]
I want to check sum of divisors of i mod 13 fori = 1 to i = 20. I tried writing a Do-Print ...
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Why does Success[…][key] work and Failure[…][key] doesn't work?
I'm trying to figure out what is a quick way to add error reporting to my user defined functions. I was experimenting with Success and ...
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2answers
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Converting prefix to infix
Is there a way in Mathematica to convert prefix to infix notation (where precedence order is preserved)?
For example, how would I convert S[a, S[b, c]] to ...
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1answer
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Is using Length more efficient than using === as stopping criterion?
I am using
NestWhileList[
f[#, elems]&,
pairs,
Length[#1]<Length[#2]&,
2, Infinity, -1
]
to generate all suitable subsets from ...
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2answers
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Change the output for `Times`function
When I have an input like:
1/2*k
The output is:
How to change the output of Timesfunction to see this result:
Another ...
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1answer
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Defining iterative algorithms [closed]
Assume the iterative algorithm of interest to be as follows:
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Iconize behaves in a confusing manner
When I evaluate Iconize[Range[10], "range10"], it returns an icon labled "range10", which if evaluated returns ...
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2answers
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Bad Float Counts? (Length[xs] != Total@Counts[xs])
In Mma 11.3, tallying floats with Counts seems to fail. (Tally works fine, and rounding fixes the problem.) Is this behavior ...
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1answer
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using strings from a header row as “pointers”
Suppose I have a list like:
data={{"product","amount","price"},{"A",1,100},{"A",3,100},{"B",5,200}}
I could use a Map to calculate over each row the "amount" * "...
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Implementing a function that exhibits linearity
I am trying to define a function $\mathbb{E}_t$ such that $\mathbb{E}_{t}[f[x_{s}]] = f[x_{s}]$ if s<=t, and $\mathbb{E}_{t}[f[x_{s}]] = \mathbb{E}_{t}[f[x_{s}]]$ if s>t. $\mathbb{E}_{t}$ is ...
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Is there a direct way of adding two random step size lists
As shown in the figure, I have three lists a,b and c. I want to see whether a + b +C0= c(here C0 is a constant).
Since list a and b have varing step size (...
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Flat attribute : example I don't understand
I am just beginning to learn about attributes of function in mathematica.
I saw the example "Flat". But there is something I don't get :
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1answer
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Inspecting Mathematica object
I'm using ProofObject for my question, but it applies to other objects too.
FindEquationalProof returns ...
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Is there packages can help read, analyze or understand MMA codes? [closed]
Sometimes, I think that it's difficult to learn high level codes, or even when looking back on some long lines of codes I myself had written, espectially when lots of pure-functions was used, so I'm ...
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1answer
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unexpected result from augmented assignment to association
Is the last of these results expected? If so, how?
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raise error on type mismatch
Is there a best practice for raising an error on a type mismatch? For compiled functions I'm guessing the answer is the use of GeneralUtilities`WithMessageHandler. ...
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1answer
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Module - Symbols out of scope of lexical scoping
The Problem
Consider the following code (1):
In[1]:= x = 2;
Module[{x, y},
y[x_] = x;
y[1]
]
Out[2]= 2
I expected the answer ...
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2answers
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Can we make a faster Boole implementation?
I just learned about Mr. Wizard's very efficient code here.
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3answers
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Unable to implement bisection method using recursion [duplicate]
I have tried to implement a bisection method for finding roots using SetAttributes[BisectionItt, HoldAll] and then ...
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0answers
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How can I better formulate a conditional statement?
To solve optimization problems I have seen this:
Is there a more elegant way to do this with alternative conditional expressions? Is there something equivelant to ...
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1answer
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Is it possible to write an expression A such that Evaluate[Evaluate[A]] is different from Evaluate[A]?
Mathematica is cool for all sorts of "magic tricks", but I'm trying to get an idea on how the core term-rewriting system works. Is it possible to make a term such that the output of its evaluation can ...
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Distinguishing Wolfram Language and Mathematica, the software
Which features are part of Mathematica, the software, and which features are Wolfram Language?
I would say there has to be a line discriminating the two somewhere. One could say that Mathematica, in ...
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What is the difference between Set and SetDelayed when evaluating the RHS leaves it unchanged?
I thought there was no difference between f[a_] = 2 + a; and f[a_] := 2 + a; because the resulting ...
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1answer
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Why did Set work instead of SetDelayed?
I started with the following expression
a[t_] := -Pi Sin(Pi/2*t)
where initial velocity is 2 Pi and initial distance is 1.
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1answer
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How can I evaluate only the (bound) variables in an expression?
Given an arbitrary expression, how can I have Mathematica only evaluate the (bound) symbols, i.e. replace them by their respective values, but not do any further simplification/evaluation of the ...
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1answer
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FunctionExpand vs FullSimplify
The documentation (v.11.3) says: "FunctionExpand is automatically called by FullSimplify."
Why then does ...
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undesirable/buggy change in behavior of Limit in Mma 11.2?
The behavior of Limit changed in Mma 11.2, and I think it is in some ways undesirable or possibly buggy. Consider
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What resources can I use to become familiar with high level syntax?
I was reading a question about dropping higher order terms and realized that I have a serous gap in knowledge when it comes to the finer points of mathematica computational programming. Are there any ...
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What use is empty binding list in `Block[{},…]`? [duplicate]
Spelunking the Export function, I stumbled upon the following definition:
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stable sort for association?
Should I be able to use the "list of functions" approach to getting a stable sort of an association? In 11.1 I see,
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advantages of ApplySides?
Version 11.3 introduces ApplySides for situations where I usually use Map. What is an example where ...
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How to achieve with Mathematica the effect a closure has in other languages?
Motivation
I want to write an auxiliary function (brief auxf) for testing the output of another function that evaluates its body repeatedly using ...
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1answer
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Is (x|y|…)∈set the same as x∈set&&y∈set&&…?
I've sometimes seen that this operator is used to specify that each of given variables is in some set, e.g. Reals. Like ...
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Can a Symbol have more than one OwnValue?
The DownValues, UpValues, and OwnValues functions are all plural. In general, a Symbol may ...
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SetDelayed not working as expected
According to the manual, "A variable defined with SetDelayed is evaluated every time it is used". The code below suggests otherwise.
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Check if symbol is in core language
How can I check if a symbol is pre-defined by Mathematica, in a way that's backwards compatible with old versions?
i.e. I would like some CoreLanguageQ[x_Symbol] ...
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Convenient value assignments in OOP
It is possible to implement OOP in Mathematica using something like
obj=c[<|a->1,b->2|>]
and it's convenient to extract value from the object by ...
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How can I extract the numerical value from the result of FindRoot [duplicate]
I've to use previous values of FindRoot to implement my program (recursively), but the type of the output from FindRoot is not a number. How can I extract the ...
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Keep only rules that replace integers with other integers
Let's say I have a list of replacement rules:
List1 = {2 -> 3, b -> 5.5, 6.57 -> 2, 3 -> 4.5, 1 -> -1, 0.03 -> 0.5, 9 -> a}
The desired ...
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Numerical integration with a fixed sampling size, skipping points [closed]
I have a large number of data points to integrate over numerically. I would like to sample only some of the points and use a rather large step size just to reduce computation time.
Say the data ...
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NIntegrating in $n$ dimensions?
I need to make a function that takes a function $f$ and a natural number $n$ and returns the integration from -inf to inf in all the $n$ dimensions of $f(x_1,\cdots,x_n)$. With Integrate I would do ...
