Questions tagged [hold]
Questions about functions which maintain an expression in unevaluated form, including the use and behavior of Unevaluated, Hold~ functions, Inactive related functions or Hold~ attributes.
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Different evaluation control inside of `Integrate` than outside of it
I want to keep inside of a integral evaluated after some replacement inside it, but at the same time the integral itself unevaluated.
I start with:
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HoldForm is not working as I would expect
Why HoldForm do this?
HoldForm[a/b \[Integral]f[x] \[DifferentialD]x]
Output is this ugly looking formula:
$$\frac{a \int f(x) ...
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Inactive form for PDE and symmetry
I would like to solve the following non-linear Poisson equation (as a toy problem for a more complicated problem)
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How to construct the local variables for Block automatically (somewhere in the code)
I am working on the fancy abstraction for Block function. The idea is to use rules to specify which local variable will be used, even if it already defined in the global context
like this
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How to define functions using a list of polynomials?
I feel stupid for not being able to do this and I think it is just a syntax error.
Let's say i have the following list:
L={x,xy,x^2+y,xyz,x^2}
How do I define 5 ...
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Seemingly identical expressions, only one evaluates! [closed]
I am having difficulty using NMaximize with a user-defined function that involves NSolve. Stack Trace shows trouble at the ...
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Getting terms and only evaluate specific parts of a series
How to write the first five terms of this series in the following form by MMA code?
$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1 \cdot 3 \cdot \cdots \cdot(2 n-1)}{2 \cdot 4 \cdot \cdots \cdot 2 n}= \frac{1}{2}+\frac{...
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Why does Plot function have HoldAll attribute?
I had an odd issue where my plot wasn't drawn correctly when I called it via Plot[Join[fs,gs], (*..*)]. However, these two versions worked:
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Why does equal remain unevaluated in this case? [closed]
This is not really an issue but rather a curiosity. Why does
-1 + 1/2 (-1 - Sqrt[5 - 20/9 (-43 + Sqrt[1885])]) + 1/2 (1 + Sqrt[5 - 20/9 (-43 + Sqrt[1885])]) == -1
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Apply HoldForm on only a part of an expression
This expression:
Det[Array[a, {3, 3}]]
is evaluated as:
$-a(1,3) a(2,2) a(3,1)+a(1,2) a(2,3) a(3,1)+a(1,3) a(2,1) a(3,2)-a(1,1) a(2,3)a(3,2)-a(1,2) a(2,1) a(3,3)+a(...
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Variable dimension tables with variable ranges
I need to construct a table that has variable dimension and variable ranges (see for tables with variable dimensions and constant ranges, e.g., this question).
Suppose there is a list ...
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A possible issue in combination of the Infix operator ~ with Sequence [closed]
There are other similar questions on this site about using the Infix operator for more than two arguments, which I have read. But there is one thing that I wasn't able to understand and couldn't ...
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Apply Plus as a new head to a list but prevent evaluation
I would like to illustrate to users the use of Apply with an example.
Plus@@Range[5]
(*15*)
To display what is happening I'm ...
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How to substitute a random function into a solution of a differential equation?
I would like to solve a differential equation including a source term.
The source term is a random variable and I model this by creating a list of RandomReal and ...
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Create a function from another by substituting arguments
Suppose I have a function f[x, coeff]
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Removing conditions on patterns from LHS of a rule
Let's consider a rule which takes conditions on the patterns specified on the LHS:
In[1]:= rule = j[n1_?NonPositive,n2_?Positive,n3_?Positive]:>AAA
I would like ...
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Can't Export string made with StringForm?
This works. It returns "acb".
StringForm["a``b", "c"]
This doesn't work.
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Derivative with respect to a variable is leaving unevaluated derivatives of functions
I have the following
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Different Latex is generated when changing a number from 2 to 1. Using HoldForm
This is the most bizzar thing I saw with Mathematica TeXForm. Could someone please explain why it happens and if there is a workaround?
First, will show screen shot. I have an expression, when I have ...
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Generalised Hold pattern for currying
Let myFun[a_][b_] := myFun[a[b]] . The HoldFirst attribute will prevent evaluation of a. Is ...
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Getting a symbol from a string without it being replaced by its value?
Consider the following code running on a fresh Mathematica session with no symbols defined:
p[s_String] := Protect[s];
p["x"]
This doesn't do anything ...
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HoldAll doesn't work for List or BlankSequence?
Consider the following function:
f[arg_] := Print[Unevaluated[arg]];
Attributes[f] = HoldAll;
The purpose of the function is to print the arguments unevaluated. In ...
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Mathematica Documentation for HoldAll: Unevaluated doesn't do anything?
I'm trying to understand the difference between HoldAll and Unevaluated. The documentation for ...
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Control evaluation for functional constraints
I'm trying to understand how to use Mathematica to find a solution subject to constraints, where one of the constraints is specified as a predicate function. But I don't know how to control evaluation ...
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Evaluating function of two variables inside NMinimize with respect to second argument
Consider three functions:
f[t_, 1] := {Cos[t], 1, 0}
f[t_, 2] := {Sin[2 t], 1, 0}
f[t_, 3] := {Cos[t - 2], 1, 0}
For each $k=1,2,3$, let $g(\cdot,k)$ be the ...
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Refer to OptionValue externally without a specific function name
I want to refer to the actual option values of a function f outside of f, using OptionValue. ...
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How does MMA return an unevaluated expression on errors without going into an infinite loop? [duplicate]
Post-answer note: this question is (understandably) marked as a duplicate, and indeed has a similar solution, but is subtly different in focus: the linked question is about returning a function call ...
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A function that maps Held symbol to string
Rougly my question is about constructing a function that maps Hold[var] to "var"
even when var has an assigned value. In details :
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Making an expression to Iceberg-like object?
Can we construct a function Iceberg,
which maps a given expression X to Iceberg[X]
satisfying 1. and 2. and 3. ?
1. From Iceberg[X],
it is not possible to inspect/extract a part of X with usual ...
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Best way to simplify a polynomial before making it the body of a function?
So, I'm dealing with iterated polynomials of a single variable—say they're anonymous functions labeled as $p_i$, i.e. p[1], p[2],...
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Inactivate Prints inside function?
If one has a piece of code with some prints, he can inactivate them using inactivate, like
Inactivate[Print["test"];,Print]; (*returns nothing*)
Hower, I ...
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Is it possible that the following pde be NDSolve-d?
I am working on an HJB recently and wish to get a numerical result. Can NDSolve on Mathematica 12.2 handle this?
$$
V_t+(e^{-\sqrt{t}}+0.4e^{-2.5t}+0.01x)V_{x}+1.12e^{-2t}V_{xx}=\frac{1}{2}e^{-3t}\...
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How to write a simple interpreter / DSL with Wolfram Language?
I am specifically trying to write an interpreter for Mathematica predicates to MongoDB aggregation stages, but I wanted to phrase the question a bit more generically because I can see many times one ...
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Inactive and simplify does not work [duplicate]
Consider the following code:
Simplify[Conjugate[Inactive[cn][n, nAvg]],
Assumptions -> Inactive[cn][__] > 0]
If you run it, it will not simplify, i.e ...
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Speeding up value reassignments in ParallelTable
I am solving a differential equation of two closed functions using ParallelTable.
For the attached code, I thought the computation time should be approximately proportional to ...
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Extract held value from Association
Consider an association which contains a key which must not be prematurely evaluated.
assoc = <| key :> value |>
For example, a value of ...
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How to define a version of Table[] which localizes iteration variable by Module[]?
For reusable code it's good practice to use Module[] to localize iteration variables used by Table[], as explained by this post.
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Hold parents of ArcTan
If this question is beating a dead horse about Hold, Inactivate etc., a close vote is fair enough. That being said, I'm curious ...
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Applying a particular rule to a held (or unevaluated) function
I am a very novice Mathematica user and still can't get my head around its evaluation control, all possible constructs related to it (e.g. Hold, ...
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How to set a value to the symbol denoted by a given string? [duplicate]
The code setString[name_String, value_]:= Evaluate[Symbol[name]] = value fails whenever Symbol[name] has already been assigned ...
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Extracting n-th part of an expression without any evaluation
Is it possible to extract n-th part of an expression as a string, without any evaluation?
For example,
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ReplaceThen and ReplaceAt - Cross between ReplacePart, Replace, and Extract -- Request for Comment
REWRITE: Multiple edits were hurting clarity
Overview:
I'm doing some work involving injecting code into held expressions, and found that I was repeating myself in a couple areas related to the ...
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DynamicModule Error when assigning Nothing to variable
Assigning Nothing to a variable inside Module works as expected:
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Combination of Block and With - Unexpected results
I'm trying to use Block to prevent a function from executing. In this example, the function I'm trying to block will simply be ...
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What's the difference between these 2 associations?
I have 2 associations similar to these simplified ones:
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Hold `outermost layer` of expression
In pursuit of a function to force unsimplified fractions
forceden[x_,d_]:=Hold[Evaluate[Numerator[x]d/Denominator@x]/d];
There are many related functions (...
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Exploring curl of a gradient of a scalar function
Suppose I want to explore $\nabla \times \nabla V$ where $V$ is some scalar function. It basically results in a zero. But I would only know why if I solve it on paper. I wanted to use Mathematica for ...
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