================================== Top new questions this week: ==================================
[General strategies to write big code in Mathematica?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/109888/general-strategies-to-write-big-code-in-mathematica
I think after six months of exposure to Mathematica and the Wolfram Language I am fairly OK with writing short codes and snippets. However, what are some general strategies to use in order to write ...
- asked by Ali Hashmi (47 votes), answered by Leonid Shifrin (45 votes)
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[How to make the digits of Pi go around in a spiral like this?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/109982/how-to-make-the-digits-of-%cf%80-go-around-in-a-spiral-like-this
Here is a start.
MapIndexed[Text[Reverse[First[RealDigits[Pi,10,252]]][[Tr@#2]],#]&, Table[{t Cos[t],t Sin[t]},{t,0,16Pi,0.2}]]//Graphics
- asked by mathe (32 votes), answered by Martin Buttner (40 votes)
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[Guidelines for planning custom GUI in Mathematica] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/109525/guidelines-for-planning-custom-gui-in-mathematica
Intro
Usually I don’t have to care (it hurts my brain though) about misaligned details, additional/missing pixels. But currently I’m participating in a project where the design matters and I have to ...
- asked by Kuba (27 votes)
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[Wrong labelling of contours with ListContourPlot] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/109778/wrong-labelling-of-contours-with-listcontourplot
Bug introduced in 9.0 or earlier and persisting through 10.4
Consider this example:
dat = Table[Re[Sqrt[1 - x^2 - y^2]], {x, -1.1, 1.1, 0.01}, {y, -1.1, 1.1, 0.01}];
Now pay special attention to ...
- asked by Szabolcs (16 votes), answered by Szabolcs (10 votes)
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[Fit image of mountain to gaussian] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/109946/fit-image-of-mountain-to-gaussian
I want to detect the edges of an image of a mountain and then fit that to a gaussian.
I am unsure about how to only get the mountain edge, rather than every single edge in the image.
How do I ...
- asked by olliepower (13 votes), answered by Dr. belisarius (13 votes)
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[What is a printer’s point?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/109813/what-is-a-printers-point
According to the documentation it is a basic unit for size spec. WindowSize and ImageSize says:
I think all the statements below are correct yet I would like to know for sure:
Is this the same ...
- asked by Kuba (12 votes), answered by Silvia (5 votes)
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[A weird issue with Interval[$MaxNumber]] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/109597/a-weird-issue-with-intervalmaxnumber
From the Interval documentation:
For approximate machine- or arbitrary-precision numbers x, Interval[x] yields an interval reflecting the uncertainty in x.
$Version (* 10.4.0 for Microsoft ...
- asked by Vladimir Reshetnikov (12 votes), answered by The Vee (3 votes)
================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ==================================
[What is the best Mathematica tutorial for young people?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/733/what-is-the-best-mathematica-tutorial-for-young-people
As Conrad Wolfram said at the TED conference, in the future kids should focus more on new technology. Computers compute better than humans, so we should focus more on thinking and getting the ...
- asked by noisy (43 votes), answered by Vitaliy Kaurov (23 votes)
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[Is Mathematica worth it for me?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/100072/is-mathematica-worth-it-for-me
I’m 13 years old and in 7th grade. I’m currently in Algebra 1, and I have fallen in love with both math and programming.
When I came upon Mathematica, it was awesome. My two favorite things fused ...
- asked by TreFox (59 votes), answered by Pillsy (43 votes)
================================== Can you answer these? ==================================
[Building a classifier for images] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/109484/building-a-classifier-for-images
I tried to build a classifier for some images that I have with the following code:
class1 = Import /@ FileNames["*", "location1"]; class2 = Import /@ FileNames["*", "location2"];
...
- asked by soandos (2 votes)
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[AppearanceRules on multipage Web Form] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/109887/appearancerules-on-multipage-web-form
I’m attempting to make a web survey using FormFunction. To list the questions I am using AppearanceRules to give each page an individual title. I can’t find any documentation in regards to ...
- asked by Alex Krotz (4 votes)
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[Function output] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/109714/function-output
I would like a function that computes Cartesian product of two sets z=(Tuples@{#1,#2}), and computes the number of elements in this set(list) Length@z which have a x elements in #1 and y elements in ...
- asked by Gelios (2 votes)