3.3.1 Top new questions this week

3.3.1.1 List of Mathematica related acronyms and their real meaning

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/104593/list-of-mathematica-related-acronyms-and-their-real-meaning

 
A few years ago, Wolfram Inc. not only started to rename things around Mathematica, a lot of new technologies and frameworks were introduced as well. Now, we are left with a lot of acronyms and  ...
 

- asked by halirutan (37 votes), answered by halirutan (38 votes)

3.3.1.2 What would you ask Mathematica to do on a big system?

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/104842/what-would-you-ask-mathematica-to-do-on-a-big-system

 
Our hardware supplier has given us the opportunity to test Mathematica on a big Windows system. The specs will be 1 to 4 TB of working memory and 12 sockets with 18 cores each. I got 1 full week of  ...
 

- asked by pvanbijnen (25 votes), answered by David G. Stork (9 votes)

3.3.1.3 What algorithm do the Compress and Uncompress functions use?

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/104660/what-algorithm-do-the-compress-and-uncompress-functions-use

 
Compress and Uncompress are used internally by Mathematica to compress things like 3D data in notebook files - data that I'd like to read independently. Does anyone have any idea if the compression  ...
 

- asked by Andy C. (12 votes), answered by Mark Adler (13 votes)

3.3.1.4 Is there any predictor-corrector method in Mathematica for solving nonlinear system of algebraic equations?

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/104578/is-there-any-predictor-corrector-method-in-mathematica-for-solving-nonlinear-sys

 
The FindRoot Function in Matheatica can easily be used to solve systems of nonlinear algebraic equations. But, I want to solve a system of nonlinear equations with variations of some parameters. 
 
 
 
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- asked by hesam (12 votes), answered by Chris K (9 votes)

3.3.1.5 How do I define a periodic region?

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/104723/how-do-i-define-a-periodic-region

 
I'm trying to create a region of "thick" grid-lines, like so 
 
GRID = ImplicitRegion[((0 <= x <= 1 || 2 <= x <= 3 || 4 <= x <= 5 || 6 <= x <= 7 || 
8 <= x <= 9) || (0  ...
 

- asked by Zorngo (12 votes), answered by Kuba (10 votes)

3.3.1.6 Zoom in on a 2D graph

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/104718/zoom-in-on-a-2d-graph

 
I have seen many queries on zooming in on plots etc. But I haven't seen any regarding 2D graphs. For eg if I have a graph like 
 
Graph[{1->2, 2->3, 3->1}]. 
 
 
It will create a graph. I have a  ...
 

- asked by vikram reddy (10 votes), answered by Kuba (11 votes)

3.3.1.7 Fitting a curve to an image object: not a superellipse, not an egg curve.. what else?

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/104419/fitting-a-curve-to-an-image-object-not-a-superellipse-not-an-egg-curve-what

 
I'm facing the problem of quantifying the morphology of objects with such a shape (nannoconids... 
 
 
they are fossils). 
 
One of the final goals is to produce a solid of revolution and compute  ...
 

- asked by Stefano (9 votes), answered by nikie (9 votes)