Questions tagged [system]

Questions on implementation details and how the parts of Mathematica are arranged or configured to work. Avoid this tag for issues that are confined to a specific operating system.

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Exported function discovery with LibraryFunction

Many internal calls boil down to invocations like LibraryFunction["path/to/library", "funcName" , ...] I'm on a mac, so I can use the ...
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How do you Solve a Simultaneous System of Recursions

Consider the following system of simultaneous recursions: r[n] == s[n-1] s[n-2] == r[n-3] I am tring to solve this system (I have given a vastly simplified ...
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Solving matrix system of ODE coupled to a non linear PDE (Reynolds)

I am trying to solve the following problem for $p$ (the pressure) between a piston skirt and a cylinder lining. This depends on the secondary motion of top and bottom of the piston skirt $e_t$ and $...
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Is mathematica adequately improving?

A bit of a loaded question, but in your opinion is Wolfram's team making good progress on improving their software? I've used Mathematica for almost 10 years now, and honestly I'm personally ...
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What are all the "magic" symbols in the Mathematica language?

Leonid Shifrin once wrote (excerpted): (Unevaluated) is one of a very few "magic symbols", along with Sequence and <...
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Problems when solving a system of PDEs with NDSolve

I am currently attempting to solve the following exercise question using NDSolve directly (ref.: Davis, M. E. (2013). Numerical methods and modeling for chemical engineers. Courier Corporation.). ...
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Dealing with over eager shadowing messages

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Get All Discrete Univariate Distributions with Symbolic Parameters

I am trying to get all Discrete Univariate Distributions with symbolic arguments from any place in Wolfram Language system. For example this guide: http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/...
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What is the orange color symbol in the new line? [duplicate]

In mathematica v 13.1 , If I type + key of my keyboard in a new cell, I see What is it? Also if I type + twice in a new cell, ...
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Notebook magnification - two independent values

It seems there are two independent, equally influential values those control mathematica notebook magnification. Just like volume bars in a certain media player(program) and volume bar in tray bar(...
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Mathematica 11 with High DPI 4k screen

My laptop has a 17 inch 4k screen, running Windows 10 and Ubuntu 1604. Both systems are set to 2x scaling. But Mathematica 11 (released 2016-08-08) is still blurry like version 10. Is there a simple ...
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Parallel computing doesn't use my own settings

To differentiate the conjugate of a function, I used such settings. ...
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Use output of Solve as input of another instance of Solve. How to deal with list of rules

I am a complete novice with Mathematica. The last line of the code that I report is a system of equations I'd like to solve (and I am sure it admits a unique solution): (I don't know how I can convert ...
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Why does Length[Names["System`*"]] give different values on Windows and Linux?

I was just curious about this. Length[Names["System`*"]] Gives slightly different value on Linux and Windows 10. I was wondering why that is as I have ...
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Documentation Search : google-like (pokygon -> polygon)

If you search for "pokygon" in google.com, then google automatically fix error, and searches for "polygon". Like google.com, if you search for "pokygon" in mathematica (V ...
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Entire process of "hyperlink of paclet" to "location of real file"?

Hyperlink[AAAAA, "paclet:ref/ModularInverse"] AAAAA If I click AAAAA, then a tutorial notebook for ModularInverse.nb ...
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How do I know which kernel is handling which .nb file? [closed]

OS : window 10 Mathematica : v12.2 By my mistake, I opened another mathematica kernel, not knowing a kernel was already running. I created a lot of .nb files and worked on them in another kernel, ...
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Replacing System` definitions in a context whilst still maintaing acces to them [duplicate]

Given the system operator TensorContract I can define a new one, TensorContractLazy with the attribute ...
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Quit the loop if encounter error message

First define length-component error (personal term) : This is an error when we want to get n-th component of a list if n is bigger then the length of the list. For example, ...
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How to permanently modify the $Path in Mathematica [duplicate]

I was trying to add permanently a path inside $Path. "/Users/Softwares/HEP_Softwares/MT-1.0" Following $Path manual I did the following ...
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Edit UnicodeCharacters.tr-File

I want to install a new package in Mathematica. If I understand the userguide right, I also have to edit the UnicodeCharacters.tr-File by another *.tr-File for example containing 0x2219 [...
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Recursion depth of 1024 exceeded during evaluation of a complex substitution [duplicate]

I am trying to do the following : How do I obtain an expression for $\epsilon$
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Error message window upon launching Mathematica

Upon launching Mathematica (v. 11.3) I always get the Messages window with "An unknown menu command token (RebuildHelpIndex)...", as shown below. How do I eliminate that?
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Temporarily prevent/allow exporting to specific folders

Is it possible to temporarily Q1) prevent exporting to specific folders ? Q2) allow exporting to only specific folders ? Whenever mathematica is about to process ...
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Paclets updating awareness and tracking

Edit From the author of this question This question is obsolete Since 2016 there is a lot of new stuff concerning Paclets. They are now documented. End of the Edit It turns out that some silent ...
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Reduce and Solve are taking forever

I am running the following script to solve a system of equations. However, it has been running for 12 hours by now with no output. Is this typical? What is happening? Is there anything wrong with how ...
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How to use Reduce to solve matrix/vector equation

Suppose $A$ is an $2 \times 2$ matrix of unknowns, and $x$ is an $2 \times 1$ vector of unknowns. How can I use $A$ and $x$ as variables to be solved for in Reduce or FindInstance? example given a ...
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Solving complicated linear system [closed]

I have this system and I would solve it with mathematica, I try with the instruction Solve but I have an error Please help me.
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Solving a system of four non-linear differential equation

Could someone help me with my problem? I've been scratching my head over this for a day now. I can't write the right code to solve this non-linear differential equation system: ...
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Multiplication of one big integer and a long list of integers - fast

This is an example of multiplying a big integer to a list of integers. ...
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Definition of large expression - makes PC freezed

In[1] A=Range[10^4];?A Out[1] (* definition of A*) It works for 10^4. But if I increase the number to 10^6 ...
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Plot a system of differential equations

I would like to plot the solutions to the system of ODEs that is written below: ...
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Read Mac Touch ID In Mathematica

Apple seems to provide some support for developers to authenticate users biometrically with the touch id sensor in the form of a swift API (see here). I'm wondering if there is an easy way to do this ...
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Solving for a unique set of solutions

I have the following code: ...
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System of PDE with integration conditions interior of domain

I am trying to solve this system of pde numerically. I am unable to find any method in Mathematica that can handle this problem. The issue is having this integration condition in the domain. I tried ...
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System`Private`*Entry* and *Valid*, or: How does Mathematica know which expression is which?

Goal The answers to this question are intended to be a place to describe the behavior and mechanism of the undocumented functions of the form System`Private`*Entry* ...
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I believe Beep uses the system sound which is obnoxious and rude. How does one create a friendlier less intrusive sound?

Beep is a terrible sound for alerting when a background task has successfully completed. It was primarily designed for errors or when a task fails. That's why it's ...
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NotebookEvaluate breaks notebook's context

Bug introduced in 10.4.1 or earlier and persists through 12.0 A support case with the identification [CASE:3813108] was created [...] I have forwarded an incident report to our developers with the ...
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How to run wolfram code from the finder in macos?

I'd like to run wolfram code (probably a .wls script) on a file or set of files by selecting them in the finder and using Right-click > Services. For example, ...
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How solve this nonlinear equations system by 12 unknowns?

We consider the following integral equation of mixed type: $x[t]=\frac{t^4}{6} -\frac{t^3}{3} +t+\Sigma_{\mu=1}^2\int_{0}^t k_\mu[t,s]G_\mu[s,x[s]]ds ,0\leq t\leq 1 $ ; (1) where $k_1 [t, s] = s^3$...
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About Blue Screen of Windows System after starting Mathematica 12.2/12.1 Win10

After starting Mathematica, My computer will Blue Screen. Mathematica version is 12.2 win10. An error of Win10 shows ...
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Solving a non-linear system of equations symbolically [closed]

How would I solve this systems of non-linear equations symbolically: $$ \mu N -\frac{\beta S I}{N} - \nu S = 0 \qquad (1)$$ $$\frac{\beta S I}{N} -\gamma I - \nu I = 0 \qquad (2)$$ $$\gamma I - \nu R =...
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Read newer version of Mathematica file

I am not sure if this question is silly, but I have the Mathematica version 12.1 and my friend has the Mathematica version 12.0 and he cannot read my files. How can I save the files in the version 12....
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Solve system of 5 unknowns and 5 nonlinear equations

I attached below the system of 5 equations that I am not able to solve using FindRoot. I also tried without defining the equations as functions but It didn't work. ` ...
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Standalone Kernel No input available

I have encountered the same problem as the thread attached. Mathematica stuck in "running" for every calculation I attempt, kernel error However, when I try to launch a standalone kernel ...
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Get a system from a array of expressions [closed]

I have an array of expresions like: A = {x+y-5, x-y-1} I need to set all expresions to zero (transforming each expression into a function) and turn it into a ...
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What is my current scope if I change `Inspector>Cell options>Evaluation options>CellContext` to "Notebook"?

I mean I made this change: Now, Clear["Global`*"] and Names["Global`*"] are not working anymore. I tried ...
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When making a package, how can I make a function that is already used by system?

Obviously, Plus[a,b] is given by Mathematica but say I have a package and I want to name a function Plus[a,b]. How can I go ...
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Can Mathematica be set to remind user to save after a set number of unsaved edits have occurred or after a set amount of time has passed?

I lost half a night's work just now because after about 6 months of learning and working with Mathematica it finally decided to crash on me for the very first time. Yeah my bad. At least I can ...
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Cannot find a way to close a toolbar. I believe it's the Templating toolbar

Today I was looking at the menu: Windows > Toolbar > Templating (and the others) which I was able to toggle show/hide but this one refuses to toggle. I hope I am not stuck with it. I noticed that ...