Questions tagged [error-tracking]
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Catching NDSolve Singularities
I am using NDSolve to solve a system of equations with changing initial conditions (I'm using NDSolve multiple times). However, for particular initial conditions I am getting an effective step size of ...
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Error messages in a notebook
I write on the Mathematica notebook
NSum[(1 + k^2 + l^2 + m^2)^{-1.75}, {k, -Infinity,
Infinity}, {l, -Infinity, Infinity}, {m, -Infinity, Infinity}]
and it ...
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NDSolve: How to perform a reverse integration consistency check?
Let there be the following NDSolve code:
s = NDSolve[{y'[x] == y[x] Cos[x + y[x]], y[0] == 1}, y, {x, 0, 30}]
I think it ...
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How can I properly use Catch[] to prevent my program from quitting?
I am getting an error depicting an Uncaught Throw, with the accompanying code being returned:
Hold[Throw[$Failed, CURLLink`Utilities`Exception]]
I have managed ...
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Why does Mathematica just return Hold of my Input? [closed]
Example:
Solve[x^2 + a x + 1 == 0, x]
Output: Hold[Solve[x^2 + a x + 1 == 0, x]]
What is the problem?
Any child can solve this in its head
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Raise Warning/Error on invalid Matrix Addition and Multiplication
Consider the following code:
DiagonalMatrix[{1, 1, 1}] - 1
Mathematica interprets it in the way, that it substracts 1 from every matrix field while ...
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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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Ignore message in `Check` without silencing
Check[expr,failexpr,checkedMessages] will evaluate expr and if it encounters any of the messages in ...
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customisable error checking, message handling code
I have an iterated computation running in a while loop, which is bound to fail at some point, at which point I want it to stop, e.g.
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How to get a value from Error message? [duplicate]
I've looked pretty hard for a solution to this issue with no luck.
Hope you could give me a clue:
When I run NDSolve I get the following error msg:
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Kernel shutting down automatically with no error
What are the possible reasons why a kernel exits and the computation simply stops without printing out an error message?
In case the specific scenario is required, it is as follows but perhaps the ...
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Large residual error when solving a 2D BVP with NDSolve and Finite Element Method
I'm trying to solve a simple PDE (an inhomogeneous Helmholtz equation) in a disk domain with center at $(1,0)$ and radius 0.5 using the following commands
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Histogram with Error bars
I have a dataset for which Mathematica easily creates a Histogram. However I also need Mathematica to show error bars corresponding to 3 standard deviations for ...
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How to catch error messages from parallel kernels
Doing something that throws out an error (warning):
ParallelTable[NIntegrate[1/Sin[10 t], {t, 0, W}], {W, 0, 10, 1}]
In parallel somehow limits a possiblity to ...
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Saving a log file if an error occurs
I am running a program that adds a message to a list after each completed cycle (about 5k cycles). Upon completion, the program saves the list to disk so I can review it.
However, if the program ...
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DSolve running forever
I have no idea how to speed this up. Does maple do a better job at solving this?
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How to track accumulated error?
If Im not wrong when we use the command N we are using float point numbers in machine precision, right? And the machine precision depends on the bits of the CPU ...
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Errors with NIntegrate: NIntegrate::ncvb and NIntegrate::slwcon
The image shows the array (W) I'm trying to integrate.
It gives the following errors:
1. NIntegrate::ncvb
2. NIntegrate::slwcon
I tried excluding the singularity points; adjusting the accuracy goal, ...
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Plotting of an error estimate of `NDSolve`
So, in an earlier post, (see here), I asked a question regarding a surface of section for a system of coupled non-linear ODEs. What I am after now, is the numerical precision of the results I get back....
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Adding an attribute crashes the system?
At some point I noticed the following errors just in the documentation:
And not only this one, this is not only for Manipulate, there were many others. Also the ...
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What is the best practice way to handle arithmetic exception in Mathematica
What is/are common way/s to handle what would be ArithmeticExceptions in Java in Mathematica/ Wolfram Language? The ugly code is the If...Continues in the innermost For Loop. How should I address this ...
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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 ...
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Catching errors while mapping a solver over a list of parameters
Perhaps this question has a simple answer, I'm sorry but I unable to get my head around it. Here's a minimal description of my issue.
I have a an equation of the form ...
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Unit tests for Graphics or FE boxes
Consider the following expression with bad syntax:
Graphics[{foo}]
How can I detect the error and retrieve the error message programmatically, so I can check for ...
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Plotting function containing NIntegrate: trace the values of convergence problems
Suppose you are plotting a function
Plot[f[x],{x,0,10}]
Where
f[x]=NIntegrate[g[x,t],{t,Tmin,Tmax}].
and when plotting, ...
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How to disable roundoff error tracking in arbitrary precision arithmetic?
In my calculations I need some larger precision. But due to the fact that I iteratively refine the results to compensate for rounding errors accumulated in previous iteration, Mathematica's arbitraty ...
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Would it be a good idea to use Failure and FailureQ in own code
Since version 10 (at least 10.0.2 but I think 10.0.0) there is Failure and since version 10.2 there is also FailureQ. As often ...
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Why do I get number with Precision larger than error estimate?
I'm trying to integrate a large function like this
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How to get a list of indices at which errors occur during iteration
I have been looking at some of the questions regarding error handling but i think my problem is unique.
I am running a Do-loop. I get errors only for certain values of the loop variable due to the ...
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Solution of a System of Equations Using `Solve`
Part 1
I am trying to solve a simple system of equations as follows
Solve[{A x^B == f, A y^B == g}, {A, B}]
But I just get the error
Solve::nsmet: This ...
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How to plot a function whose constant parameters have associated uncertainties in Mathematica 8.0?
Let's assume I want to plot the function $f(x)=a + bx+ cx^{2}$, where experimentally known values of parameters $a, b$ and, $c$ are as follows:
$a=1.01 \pm 0.18$
$b=0.92 \pm 0.11$
$c=2.2 \pm 0.2$
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Error in the exercise or in mathematica settings
I am going through Kenneth Rosen's book about discrete mathematics. Chapter 1 there is a example where we build functions to check valid conclusions.
Here is the code:
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Goal optimization: finding the best combination of capacitors and resistors resulting in given properties
I want to edit @MarcoB answers (because the code he gave doesn't answer the question appropriately)->(the function that need to be optimised is not implemented as asked)
But it seems like I am having ...
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How to count the actual occurence of a warning message in a Do loop?
I am running a lot of simulations to fit a model to randomly generated data. Sometimes the fitting converges properly sometimes it does not, but it will give you the fitting parameters anyway. I would ...
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Adding Trace produces error messages
This is very strange. As I was trying to debug this problem, I noticed when I add Trace then I get lots of internal errors generated. This also happens the first ...
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SystemException[“MemoryAllocationFailure”, …] with NMaximize
I have a complicated analytical expression that needs to be maximized with respect to a parameter t:
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Show error messages from collapsed sections
I've got a fairly long notebook. I like to have most of the sections collapsed. If I evaluate the entire notebook I don't see errors in the collapsed sections unless I expand them. I did see that I ...
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Automatically detect largest interval over which NDSolve can find a solution
Question: Consider the following numerical resolution:
NDSolve[eqn, {x1[t], x2[t], y[t]}, {t, tmin, tmax}
where eqn, ...
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How to output (anything) if any error happens
I have long code which goes through iteration process. some times I get error messages.
I want to get the iteration numbers (or any kind of output indications) when errors happen.
for example, how ...
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How to fix this error : SetDelayed::write: Tag Plus in (<<1>>)[x_] is Protected.? [duplicate]
I don't get the meaning of the sign <<>> and also from which line the error is coming as I have a program of more than 30 lines with many defined functions without using "Module" . Is not there ...
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How to find discretezation error of NDSolve
Is there a way to find out how large the truncation, round-off, and other errors that occur from discretizing a differential equation are while using the default settings in NDSolve? Or would I have ...
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MathKernel doesn't return all Messages
In Mathematica I run this command:
Plot[Sin[x], {x, 1, 15}, GridLines -> error]
It generates a Plot with this error message:
A GridLines specification ...
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How can you link Parallel Mapping and Error tracking
Following this question and the comments made, together with the information in this question, the following code allows error tracking and debugging very nicely.
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Finding and interpreting errors [duplicate]
This sounds like a fairly trivial question, but I can't think of any way to solve it. I am doing an extensive parameter sampling where a set of ODEs is used together with ...
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How to catch complete error message information, including the message text as it would be printed?
If I evaluate this expression:
Module[{}, 1/0;0^0]; msg = $MessageList
I get:
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How do I troubleshoot when I get a Part::partd or a Part::partw error?
Mathematica has produced the following error message:
Part::partd: Part specification ... is longer than depth of object?
What is partd?
I think I may have ...
