Questions tagged [replacement]
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Terms of expressions with non-commutative multiplication that meet the given criteria
There is the following expression:
expr=a^3**x**Transpose[x]**y+x+y**Transpose[y]**x**a^3+x**Transpose[y]
It is necessary to apply the ...
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'Mapping' the values of a list to variable
Suppose I have the variable expr1 = a[n] + b[n], and the list stencil={-1,0,1}. I want to make a function ...
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Replace Derivative[ i ][ f ][ t ] with f[ i, t]
Assume the PadeApproximant is carried over f[t0] * g[t0] with the order {1, 1}, that is
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Tropical Operation Conversions: Multiple Operations
I apologize if my syntax is bad. I looked around, but didn't see anything on this in the stack exchange.
I would like to be able to transform a classical real-valued polynomial to a tropical ...
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Replacement, PatternTest, Module related Question
Let's see how MMA handles following type of expression :
Replace[L, {pattTest1->rhs1, pattTest2->rhs2, pattTest3->rhs3}, {1}]
Specific example :
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Classifying elements, by the value of a fixed function, using Replace
Let L be a list of several lists. And the length of each list is less than 1000.
You can create L by
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How to replace derivatives of a function with symbolic symbols and numbers with a replacement rule? (I.e. U'' maps to u2)
Suppose I have the expression:
expr = U''[x] + U'[x]
I would like to be able to write an abstract replacement rule so that I can transform the above expression to:
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ReplaceAll with Powers
If I run the following code:
a^2/b^2 /. {a/b -> c}
I'm getting output:
a^2/b^2
How can I obtain ...
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Smart way to remove rules from lists, leaving just values, specifically from FindMinimum output
I would like to know if there is a direct way to remove the rules from a list of rules.
I know that, simply, this can be done with:
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What is an easy way to transform an equality into a replacement rule?
I found the necessity for the following procedure and was surprised I couldn't find a built-in function to do the following. I include my solution in case someone needs the same functionality, but if ...
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Removed all undefined from a list of rules
My output from NSolve is a list of rules, most of these are undefined, I want to remove those rules.
More specifically I have a list
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How to use "Replace" in matrix? [closed]
I would like to change the form of matrix output, for example:
A = {{1, 0}, {0, 0}};
B = {{0, 0}, {1, 0}};
B.A
This will give me a matrix that is the same as the ...
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Replace list of list according to second list
Given
p = {{2, 0}, {3, 0}, {4, 0}, {5, 0}, {8, 0}, {11, 0}}
I want to replace parts according to a second list t1 if the first ...
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Replacing an arbitrary function of a variable [closed]
If I do something like
1/Sqrt[x] /. {Sqrt[x] -> a}
it does not lead to an expected result, but can be fixed with
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Replace 'n'-th occurence with number 'n'
How can I replace n-th occurence with number n for string/for list?
For string :
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The replacement operator -> and :> and pattern
I'm confused by the difference between two replacement operators -> and :>, and their relation with the dummy variable (...
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How can I change the expression x1 to x[1] in a simple way?
I have one expression,
exp0=x1+x9/8+ x4 x5
I want to get
exp1=x[1]+x[9]/8+x[4] x[5]
Is there a very simple way to do that?
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How does NumberQ work [closed]
I want Log[2 x / Pi] to be expressed as Log[2/Pi] + Log[x]
so I make this replacement
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Replacement rule for functions of two variables
In Mathematica when I use the substitutions rule (/.) If I have two variables {NN,H} each variables has 5 values and i want to substitute about the first variable ...
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How to make a replacement rule matching exponents including 0 and 1
==============Edit for solution(s):
For anybody who does not need to worry about the structure of any coefficents and has non-negative powers this solution from @kirma works very well:
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Substituting a function into a symbolic derivative term giving summations
Suppose I have terms which are symbolic derivatives of an undefined function:
f'[x]
(* Derivative[1][f][x] *)
If I later find out that this function can be ...
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Why does the function replacement not work here?
why does the function replacement not work here?
b[1, x_] := x^2;
a'[x] /. a -> Function[x, b[1, x]]
gives $b^{(0,1)}(1,x)$ without evaluating further.
I would ...
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why two different mathematica files with the same ODEs substituted with the same values give me different output?
I have a big struggle with numerical solution of a set of 3 ODE equations in one .nb file. This is completely wrong when I when use NDSolve[] command for them with previous substitution of certain ...
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Define a new rule to take precedence over the others in a symbol's `Downvalues` list [duplicate]
I have a symbol that has a very large list of Downvalues. One of the rules in this list should be applied before the others because it simplifies many expressions, ...
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ReplaceAll command using list elements
I'm trying to define a function that replaces certain expressions that appear when calculating scattering amplitudes (not important). Basically, I have a function ...
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Evaluating expressions by applying corresponding rules stored in another list
I have a list of expressions:
{x,x^2,x^3}
and a list of rules
{x->1,x->2,x->3}
How can I get ...
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Substitute function back into solution
I have a expression
G[x] := (1-x^2)(1+A*x)(1-a*x)
where $(a,A) \in \mathbb{R} $.
Now this heavily simplifies some other expression. But these expression are no ...
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Solve the current equation with respect to one of the coefficients and substitute it into each equation of the system
Good day to all!
In this question about recurrence relations, I had a simple case when the k + 1th variable is represented in terms of ...
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Replacing a column in a matrix by its Log [closed]
I have a nx3 matrix (called Plottable) filled with non-negative reals and I am trying to change the third column to its logarithm, but the /. operator doesn't change anything in the matrix. If I try ...
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Double Sum, taking a constant out of the first sum gives a different result
I have a code with the following double sum:
Sum[Sum[(-1-k+f[k]) (-l+n+f[l]), {l,k+1,n}], {k,1,n}] /. f[r_] -> If[r == 1, n, 0]
With that, I get:
I wanted to ...
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Wait replacement before NIntegrate
To pose my question more concretely, let me consider the minimal example
NIntegrate[1, {u, 0, a}] /. a -> 0.241
which gives as output:
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Why does my list of positions contain a leading and following element not in the original list?
I have a list which contains non-integers (three in this case) each of which I need to replace with a different Random Variate.
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Replace something to an expression
After some calculations, I get some long expressions. I want to change some variables to get simple looks.
For a just small example:
But it doesn't work.
I convert the expression to ...
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Change a value within a list from a string to number
I have a table with 10 columns. The last column contains a string; e.g.,
"center", "passageway 1", up to "passageway 8".
I want to change the last column so that the ...
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NCReplaceRepeated destroys noncommutativity; is this a bug?
I am pretty new to patterns in Mathematica. Here is the example I want to consider:
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Replacement of Association value does not evaluate
Cos[a - b] /. {a -> 0, b -> 0}
gives 1
However,
<|1 -> Cos[a - b]|> /. {a -> 0, b -> 0}
gives
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Is there any particularity of Sum/Product in replacement
Here is an simple replacement:
Log[x[k]] /. Log[a_] -> a*xbar
I get the answer in my mind:
xbar x[k]
Similarly, I use ...
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Algebraic substitutions in order
I have some symbols xp[m,n] that satisfy recursion relations, rule1, rule2, rule3. I would like to use the relations to reduce ...
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What is the use of a list of replacement rules, when there are no curly braces around each one?
I've noticed the following in the Mathematica documentation for ReplaceAll:
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Replace part of a List using 'ReplacePart'
I have two lists, List0 and List1 that have specific structures. I want to replace the second number in each pair of numbers in List0 with subsequent numbers from a flattened version of List1. This ...
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Replacement with equivalent local variable and global variables give apparently different results using the same NDSolve output
I am solving a system ODEs which Mathematica quickly gives me a result varsol and dvarsol. Up to this point, everything is good.
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Rules for internal functions
I'm at my string rewrite systems again. I always implemented these as rules on function arguments. For example, assume a rule is you can drop all arguments 0:
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weird behavior in pattern-matching and condition
I'm confused by the following three different results involving pattern matching and condition.
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How to use ReplaceAll to create Association from List
I want to create a List of Associations from data in a two-dimensional List by using ...
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Is it possible to add "Synonyms and Antonyms" to the rightclick menu like office word and do the replacement in place?
When we write some note or comments in the notebook, Mathematica provides an spell check and we can select the right word to make it right. Mathematica 12.0 also provides a function to find the ...
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How can I remove First[{}] from the output list of a function?
Consider:
listOfKeys = {"Ambientalismo", "Anoressia"};
list2 = First /@ (WikidataSearch /@ listOfKeys)
I've tried
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Rule rewriting behavior
This is kind of meta-programming attempt. Below are two snippets:
Snippet 1:
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