5.46 Tuesday, February 16, 2016

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[Why does Mathematica report that \(\int _1^\infty \frac {\sin (\sqrt {x})}{\sqrt {x}}dx\) = \(2\cos (1)\)?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/106162/why-does-mathematica-report-that-int-1-infty-frac-sin-sqrtx-sqrtxdx

Bug introduced in 7.0 or earlier and persisting through 10.3.1 or later

Mathematica 10 gives the following very odd result,

Integrate[Sin[Sqrt[x]]/Sqrt[x], {x, 1, Infinity}] 
(* 2 Cos[1] *)

which seems ...

- asked by JEM (30 votes)

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[How was Mathematica built?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/106020/how-was-mathematica-built

I’ve been wondering this for a while now: How was Mathematica built?

Is it written in Haskell? C++? I’d love to get a taste of the wizardry behind this incredible software.

- asked by Chet (14 votes), answered by Sjoerd C. de Vries (19 votes)

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[How can one manually change the rule ordering] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/106068/how-can-one-manually-change-the-rule-ordering

I have a function which has some general behaviour, but that should act on some specific kinds of objects in some other way. I know that Mathematica is supposed to automatically order the rules so ...

- asked by Lior Blech (14 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (15 votes)

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[What governs images resizing in the FrontEnd environment] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/106204/what-governs-images-resizing-in-the-frontend-environment

What is responsible for the middle Row images’ size? And why single image row is different?

{#, Row[{#, #}], Row[{#}]} & @ RandomImage[1, {100, 100}]

I know I can prevent that with mapping ...

- asked by Kuba (13 votes), answered by Jason B (9 votes)

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[How to report a bug in Mathematica] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/106227/how-to-report-a-bug-in-mathematica

I found two bugs in Mathematica (10.3 and 10.1) and I need to report it. Is there any tools to do that or section on Wolfram website?

- asked by Developer2000 (12 votes), answered by Szabolcs (17 votes)

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[Reproduce image effect in Mathematica] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/106165/reproduce-image-effect-in-mathematica

How do I create the "dotifying" effect below in Mathematica?

I have tried to use Rasterize first to get the image pixelated, but how do I get the disc/circle pattern then?

image :=  ...

- asked by macurie (12 votes), answered by rhermans (17 votes)

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[How to make a CahnHilliard model GIF] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/106333/how-to-make-a-cahn-hilliard-model-gif

The question derived from @Jason B ’s answer.I wanna make it but don’t how to do. But we can get some rule about the GIF

The change of the total pixel is very small.

imagelist =  ...

- asked by yode (10 votes), answered by MarcoB (15 votes)

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[Generating visually pleasing circle packs] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/40334/generating-visually-pleasing-circle-packs

EDIT: (my conclusion and thank you note) I want to thank you all guys for this unexpected intellectual and artistic journey. Hope you had fun and enjoyed it the same as I did.

I would like to ...

- asked by VividD (89 votes), answered by level1807 (53 votes)

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[How to calculate contour integrals with Mathematica?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/34073/how-to-calculate-contour-integrals-with-mathematica

How to calculate the integral of \(\frac {1}{\sqrt {4 z^2 + 4 z + 3}}\) over the unit circle counterclockwise for each branch of the integrand?

- asked by user64494 (20 votes), answered by Artes (39 votes)

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[Extracting control points from BezierFunction] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/107435/extracting-control-points-from-bezierfunction

given a Bezier surface, is there a simple way to express \(g_{12}\) (from the First fundamental form) again in Bezier form?

More precisely, I have control points and a Bezier function \(f\):

cps = {{{0,  ...

- asked by Osmihran (1 vote)

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[Order of importing data from files] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/106296/order-of-importing-data-from-files

I have many text files numbered from 1 to 1 million in numerical order. Within each text file is 5 columns of data (TAB spaced) with many rows. I effectively want to take the minimum value from each ...

- asked by David (1 vote)

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[WolframScript Unix - Script Parameters on Raspberry Pi] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/107436/wolframscript-unix-script-parameters-on-raspberry-pi

I’m currently trying to run a script with 2 parameters which gets called via a BASH script. The script runs fine however the list of passed parameters , $ScriptCommandLine, always stays empty.

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- asked by TheCheatsrichter (2 votes)