Questions tagged [undocumented]
Questions on undocumented functionality of Mathematica. Note that such functions might be subject to change without notice in future versions.
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Is there more complete documentation of DSolve with all hacks?
I know DSolve. I know this community and I am able to gather some hacks.
There is this:
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$Assumptions = _ ∈ Reals results in incorrect simplification of ConjugateTranspose[..]
The linear combination $Q$ of two Hermitian matrices $A^\dagger = A, B^\dagger = B$ with real coefficients $m,n \in \mathbb{R}$, i.e. $Q = m A + n B$ is itself a Hermitian matrix $Q^\dagger = Q$.
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Available Methods for DSolve?
I would like to know, apart from Method->Automatic what are available methods for DSolve.
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Pattern not matching BoundaryMeshRegion
Mathematica 13.1 on Windows 10.
Can someone explain why the following does not match:
MatchQ[BoundaryMeshRegion[Cube[]], BoundaryMeshRegion[__]]
(* False *)
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How to set minimal allowed size for a graphical element?
Starting from version 10.3 there is a documented way to specify a maximum allowed size for a graphical element via UpTo:
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Context menu to graphics component
How do I add individual context menus (shown upon secondary mouse click) to various components of a graphics object without needing to go into edit mode?
Consider the following example:
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VandermondeSolve changes, InterpolatingFunctionToPiecewise breaks
I just notice ResourceFunction["InterpolatingFunctionToPiecewise"] is broken in v13.1. (Perhaps it's in v13.0, I'm not sure. ) Here's a sample:
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How to detect errors that happen in the FrontEnd? [duplicate]
Some errors only seem to be produced at the point of typesetting, making it very difficult to detect them early. For example:
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NMinimize/NMaximize: How to specify additional options to the "PostProcess"->FindMinimum option
I would like to pass FindMinimum Options to the PostProcess Option of NMinimize.
Here is minimal working example of using NMinimize from the documentation at (see tutorial/...
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How to determine the current width of the output cell area?
When answering this question, I suddenly realized that it is surprisingly difficult to determine the current width of the output cell contents.
I tried to employ the ...
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Why does System`Private`ConstructNoEntry[Quantity, 1, "kg"] enter a Recursion?
System`Private`ConstructNoEntry[BesselJ, 0, x]
works fine, and outputs
BesselJ[0, x]
However,
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How can I create an atomic head or treat some head as atomic during Map?
For example,
Map[g, {0, {h[1, 2, 3]}}, {-1}]
gives
{g[0], {h[g[1], g[2], g[3]]}}
I want a ...
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Charting`ScaledTicks not working anymore in Mathematica 13
Charting`ScaledTicks was a convenient way to organize Ticks or Frameticks in Mathematica without needing to define a tick-function. Basically most tick-related questions here were answered with this ...
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User plug-in methods for SumConvergence
@Валерий Заподовников remarks:
BTW, it is also quite bad that Mathematica does not have Bertrand test.
Is there a way to extend the convergence tests in ...
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Arithmetic operations on NumericArrays
Currently, NumericArrays are directly supported by the most important array-related functions, what makes them a very attractive data structure for implementing ...
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What is idiomatic way to extract NumericArray from Image?
It is easy to see that NumericArray is a construct underlying Image:
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How to list all possible string arguments of a specific function?
For example, to learn the function Alphabet, we can read its document. But it's rather ambiguous, like "Some languages have extra properties". How to find ...
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How to use System`Private`AssumptionAccess and Assumptions`*?
I see this function is used by some symbols in Assumptions`*, and it HasDownCode and does not ...
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Internal`CopyListStructure makes fatal error sometimes
Warning : At least in my PC (windows 10, mathematica V12.2), some of the codes here led to fatal error.
Fatal means mathematica will freeze + 'Abort Evaluation' will not work. I had to quit the kernel ...
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What is the purpose of StrokeForm?
Symbol System`StrokeForm is present already in Mathematica version 8 (but not in version 5.2).
Currently, it is used in built-in themes, for example:
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Wrong Graphics coordinate system after Image to Graphics conversion
Bug introduced in 12.3 or earlier and persisting through 13.1.0 [CASE:4896512]
If I upload this image (originally this img was generated by ...
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How to explicitly open or close cell group?
There is a "OpenCloseGroup" in FrontEndTokenExecute. It act like toggle. If the selected cell group is open, ...
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How to convert Graph atomic object back into unevaluated expression? [duplicate]
For the purposes of further development of my shortInputForm function, I wish to convert Atomic objects such as Graph into non-...
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Resolve absolute path to Documentation Notebook
We can easily create clickable hyperlinks for Documentation pages like the following:
{URL["paclet:ref/Set"], Hyperlink["paclet:ref/Set"]}
But ...
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What Does Compile`SetIterate Do?
The list of compilable functions (given by Compile`CompilerFunctions[] // Sort) shows one of the more interesting- and core-sounding functions: ...
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What are the valid options for the "ParametricCaching" option in ParametricNDSolve?
I am using ParametricNDSolve as part of the calculation of an objective function for an optimization, so I am trying to strike a balance between memory usage and ...
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Modern equivalent of $InternetProxyRules
The undocumented symbol $InternetProxyRules was useful for debugging network connectivity issues. In Mathematica 12.0 it returns a list with keys "UseProxy&...
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Is Internal`StringToDouble broken in 12.3?
I believe Internal`StringToDouble was the only way to fast convert string into numbers. Now in V12.3 it was removed:
Internal`StringToDouble["1"]
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How to set MaxStepSize for the case of two variables
The option MaxStepSize permits to manually set the step size of the integration in NDSolve and similar functions.
How do I set ...
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TemplateEvaluate, TemplateUnevaluated, and TemplateVerbatim [Undocumented] - What do you know?
Let's discuss some undocumented Template-related functionality. Specifically, what do you know about TemplateEvaluate, ...
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NDSolveValue and pdepe of MATLAB disagree under spherical coordinates
Assuming there is a spherical activated carbon particle, the concentration outside the grain is 200 (C[t,ri] == 200), that ...
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Turning off automatic hyperlinks
Recently (I only noticed in V12.2), website URLs, such as https://www.wolfram.com, became active in text cells in notebooks. The "hot" nature makes the links hard to edit, since any click ...
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How to revert behavior of SeriesData to pre 12.1
In Mathematica 12.0 and earlier,
SeriesData[x, 0, {1/u + Log[x/y]}, 0, 3, 1]
used to preserve its list of expressions in the form it was given.
Now, in ...
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Property "Centroid" of result from ConvexHullMesh[] can not be extracted
As the title describes, specifically, simple code below
ConvexHullMesh[RandomReal[1, {10, 2}]]["Centroid"]
returns an error in V. 12.2, but it worked in ...
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Log scale for ListContourPlot when the axes have different orders of magnitude
I am trying to plot a data set (download here) in Mathematica (it's 3.9 MB and I wasn't sure how to best share it) which I then want to visualize with ...
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Please explain this syntax: GaborWavelet[6]["FourierFactor"]
I've been using Mathematica for some years, yet I'm befuddled by this statement:
GaborWavelet[6]["FourierFactor"]
It appears to give the center frequency ...
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BarLegend ticks distorted in MatrixPlot
As shown in many threads here (this, this, ...), Ticks is a valid option of BarLegend. But it doesn't seem to work well in this ...
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Experimental`CreateNumericalFunction
When working with a Compile function I can specify if a given argument is a matrix, a vector or a scalar. For instance, something like:
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A Curiosity: What is DispatchQ?
As shown below, my autofill in Mathematica showed an interesting function: DispatchQ. Yet, it does not appear in the Mathematica Documentation Center, a search for ...
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Why are some symbols recognized by Mathematica but nowhere in the documentation? [duplicate]
I was trying to calculate a Groebner basis for a given set of polynomials, and I did it successfully. But I wanted to calculate the conversion matrix between the original basis and the Groebner basis....
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Implicit Riccati Equation Solver (to find the anti-stabilizing solution)
I've found that the latest MATLAB icare() solver includes the possibility to find also the anti-stabilizing solution of the Riccati equation.
I haven't found a ...
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What does the PerformanceGoal option of FindMinimum do?
FindFit and FindMinimum both have a PerformanceGoal option. It is not documented. What does ...
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In search of lost time: Mathematica keyboard shortcuts
I am wondering about all the shortcuts that there are in Mma, besides the documented ones in https://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/KeyboardShortcutListing.html.
Are there any undocumented ...
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Control page width when using ExportPacket[..., "InputText"]
Suppose we have a cell like this:
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Is AlgebraicRulesData magical?
I am trying to understand what AlgebraicRules is all about in the answer to this question. It apparently returns an ...
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What does Reduce`FreeVariables really do? And can we rely on it?
Very frequently, in answers on this site, the undocumented function Reduce`FreeVariables comes up in the context of generating a list of variables inside an ...
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How to make my custom neural layer only apply noise during training (similar to how DropoutLayer behaves)?
Utilizing some undocumented Mathematica functionality, I implemented it like this:
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How to author a workflow?
I find the workflow refpages in the doc center very helpful, and I'd like to make some of my own:
Workflows seem to be notebooks of "Text" and ...
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Is it possible to get current thickness for every Line, Polygon, Circle object in a plot?
When exporting Mathematica graphics to raster formats with high resolution the common problem is that thickness for such objects as Line, ...
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Why does setting SyntaxInformation add a definition to DefaultValues
Before setting any definitions to the symbol f, the DefaultValues of f is empty:
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