8.3 December 17, 2014
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Top new questions this week:
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[How to plot contours in the faces of a
cube]\url{http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/38656/how-to-plot-
contours-in-the-faces-of-a-cube}
I'm trying to plot contours of a function f[x,y,z] on the faces of a
cube as the example below, which represents the domain of this function.
Is there a way to do it in Mathematica? The ...
- asked by RaphaelDavid (25 votes), answered by belisarius (10 votes)
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[Creating new graphics primitive (EdgeForm,
FaceForm)]\url{http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/38753/creatin
g-new-graphics-primitive-edgeform-faceform}
My question is strongly related to this question, nevertheless I would
like to bring it to every ones attention. Lets say I want to create a
new graphics primitive Boing which should look like this
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- asked by halirutan (23 votes), answered by Simon Woods (18 votes)
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[Graphics elements do not line up perfectly in exported
PDFs]\url{http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/38745/graphics-ele
ments-do-not-line-up-perfectly-in-exported-pdfs}
Graphics elements do not always line up perfectly in exported PDFs.
Take for example
Graphics[{Point[{0, 1}], Line[{{0, 0}, {0, 1}}]}, AspectRatio ->
Automatic]
It looks like this on screen:
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- asked by Szabolcs (15 votes), answered by Szabolcs (13 votes)
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[Drawing an arrow pointing at the "Enable Dynamics"
button]\url{http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/38692/drawing-an
-arrow-pointing-at-the-enable-dynamics-button}
Sometimes my students are given Mathematica notebooks as part of an
assignment, and asked to go through some demonstrations contained in the
.nb file. A lot of times I get complaints that the "graphs ...
- asked by Steve D (11 votes), answered by Alexei Boulbitch (9 votes)
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[ReplaceRepeated seemingly omits some
rules]\url{http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/38668/replacerepe
ated-seemingly-omits-some-rules}
Is there a simple way in Mathematica to prevent rule reordering? Let me
give an example:
a -> b //. {b -> c, (x_ -> y_) -> (x -> Expand[y])}
(* a -> b *)
though
a -> b /. {b ...
- asked by jondaman21 (10 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (6 votes)
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[Formatting Excel Borders with
.Net]\url{http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/38891/formatting-e
xcel-borders-with-net}
I have various tables generated in a Mathematica application and need to
export this to MSExcel formatted in a specific way.
The Excel formatting has to be generated by Mathematica. I am not ...
- asked by BlueMac (9 votes), answered by WReach (11 votes)
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[Problem with numerical evaluation of analytically solved integral,
solution way
off]\url{http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/38734/problem-with-
numerical-evaluation-of-analytically-solved-integral-solution-way}
The following command in Version 9.0.1:
N[Integrate[x^50*Sin[x], {x, 0, 1}]]
gives $1.4615\times 10^{48}$ which is way off from the correct solution
which is between $0$ and $0.5$.
Interestingly ...
- asked by vonjd (9 votes), answered by Szabolcs (12 votes)
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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[ShowLegend
values]\url{http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/6236/showlegend-
values}
How do I get ShowLegend to put the max and min values that a plot
produces.
for example, when using ListDensityPlot, with PlotRange->Automatic,
the plot can sometimes clip. How do I get ...
- asked by Andrew Spott (23 votes), answered by Jens (30 votes)
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[Get a "step by step" evaluation in
Mathematica]\url{http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/148/get-a-s
tep-by-step-evaluation-in-mathematica}
Is it possible in Mathematica to get a step-by-step evaluation of some
functions; that's to say, outputting not only the result but all the
stages that have led to it?
Example : Let's say I want to ...
- asked by Skydreamer (43 votes), answered by J.M. (38 votes)
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Can you answer these?
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[What are the limits of the
Prime-functions?]\url{http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/38819/
what-are-the-limits-of-the-prime-functions}
Will Prime and PrimePi test up to 3 * 10^12? Where can I find the limits
for these funtions? Also, what are the limits for PrimeOmega and
PrimeNu? More generally, is there any documentation that gives ...
- asked by martin (2 votes)
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[Efficient storage of Kronecker sum of circulant matrices+diagonal
matrix]\url{http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/38901/efficient-
storage-of-kronecker-sum-of-circulant-matricesdiagonal-matrix}
I have a square matrix of the form
$$M=D+\overset{N}{\underset{n=1}\bigoplus}R_n,$$
where $R_n$ are circulant matrices, $D$ is a diagonal matrix and
$\oplus$ is Kronecker sum. Its size is quite big, ...
- asked by Ruslan (2 votes)
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[What is available for editing Mathematica source code with
Emacs?]\url{http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/38838/what-is-av
ailable-for-editing-mathematica-source-code-with-emacs}
I can find several Emacs libraries for Mathematica, but I'm not aware of
a clear favourite, a definitive list, or of a library which is actively
maintained and developed. None of these appear to be in ...
- asked by Ian Hinder (6 votes)