2.3 Thursday, December 10, 2020

2.3.1 Top new questions this week
2.3.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

2.3.1 Top new questions this week

Find the equidistance curve between two curves
Confused by results of FunctionDomain
Cannot reproduce well-known summation result
Is there a way to get tooltip for parts of a string?
Nice use case for symbolic tensors?
Drawing hollow disks in 3D with an sphere in center and small spheres on the rings
Solve‘DirInf[] Meaningful value or just a bug?

Find the equidistance curve between two curves

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=235971

I have three function \(f(x)=x^x\), \(g(x)=\ln (x)^{\ln (x)}\), \(h(x)=\ln (x)^2\) and I want to find (numerically) \(C\) the center of the circle tangent to the three curves.

I think that one way is to find ...

asked by Domenico Modica https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=76121 14 votes

answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 14 votes

Confused by results of FunctionDomain

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=236138

Why does Mathematica give me the function domain of \[f(x)=(2x-3)^{\frac {1}{5}}-(2x+1)^{\frac {1}{5}}-(x - 3)^{\frac {1}{5}}\] as \(x\geq 3\)? I used this command:

asked by Ramez Hindi https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=76160 7 votes

answered by Roderic https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=76085 8 votes

Cannot reproduce well-known summation result

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=236149

Bug introduced in 4.2 or 5.0, persisting through 12.2.0.

Note: this is a repost of my OP on math.SE. I am posting it here because multiple users with different Mathematica versions have given me the ...

asked by Klangen https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=49819 7 votes

answered by Bob Hanlon https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9362 3 votes

Is there a way to get tooltip for parts of a string?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=235911

Is there a way to get the tooltip to appear for parts of a string?

asked by user13892 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13892 7 votes

answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 9 votes

Nice use case for symbolic tensors?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=236188

I come from before the times of symbolic tensors in Mathematica, and am used to working with concrete tensors and custom commands to contract them using Transpose, Dot, etc. I recently realized that ...

asked by Stijn https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=69486 6 votes

answered by jose https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=10552 2 votes

Drawing hollow disks in 3D with an sphere in center and small spheres on the rings

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=236161

I was trying to draw the following logo of an atom using Mathematica, but I could only figure out how to draw intersecting ellipses, not a nice logo like below. Do you have any idea? And is ...

asked by Saeid https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=35814 6 votes

answered by Michael E2 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4999 7 votes

Solve‘DirInf[] Meaningful value or just a bug?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=236077

Bug introduced in 4.1 or earlier and persisting through 12.2.0. or later

To the problem below, I get four independent, incomplete solutions, three in terms of ...

asked by Michael E2 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4999 6 votes

answered by Akku14 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=34287 0 votes

2.3.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

Why is raytracing so slow?
Generate a Unit Circle Trigonometry
Drawing a square root spiral
How do I make a 3DPlot using cylindrical coordinates?
How to calculate contour integrals with Mathematica?
Skip header lines on import
Using Export[] sends the file where?
Can you answer these questions
Periodical sum of rows by a certain step
Behavior of $MinPrecision seems to have changed between 12.0.0 and 12.1.1
HankelTransform problem

Why is raytracing so slow?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=219629

I’m trying to get some rays to bounce in a circle. But I want to be able to control the reflections, i.e. the direction the rays bounce in the circle. I have a MWE below, and it is severely limited by ...

asked by Tomi https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=36939 31 votes

answered by Tim Laska https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=61809 42 votes

Generate a Unit Circle Trigonometry

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=2456

Struggling often with Trigonometry I would like to have some code to generate this Unit Circle Trigonometry. Would be of great help when I need to transform some data :

asked by 500 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=172 18 votes

answered by Mark McClure https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=36 32 votes

Drawing a square root spiral

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=66969

Here is a start. I’m looking for a nice way to draw it.

asked by matrix89 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5379 24 votes

answered by Bob Hanlon https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9362 21 votes

How do I make a 3DPlot using cylindrical coordinates?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=19076

I’m trying to plot a function of the form \(z(r,\theta )\) where \(r \in [0, R]\) for a finite R, \(\theta \in [0,2\pi [\), and z is the third coordinate, a function of the first two. I couldn’t find anything ...

asked by Learning is a mess https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5643 18 votes

answered by whuber https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=91 24 votes

How to calculate contour integrals with Mathematica?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=34073

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 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=7152 42 votes

answered by Artes https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=184 64 votes

Skip header lines on import

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=50718

When importing a data file what are the comment symbols for Mathematica? That is, given a file like this

blabla 
bulbul 
 
1 2 6 54 7 ...

what symbol do I have ...

asked by MaxJ https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=14687 20 votes

answered by george2079 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2079 18 votes

Using Export[] sends the file where?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=8586

I am trying to use the Export command to convert a list of plots into a *.gif file, and the command runs and executes well, but I can’t find the file! Where is it ...

asked by Patrick Da Silva https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1785 37 votes

answered by Vitaliy Kaurov https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13 51 votes

Can you answer these questions

Periodical sum of rows by a certain step

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=236085

I’ve been struggling with one problem. I have a classic matrix in this example 12x4 such as: matrix = Table[i, {i, 12}, {4}]

asked by Jakub Petrj https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=75456 2 votes

answered by Carl Woll https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=45431 0 votes

Behavior of $MinPrecision seems to have changed between 12.0.0 and 12.1.1

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=235851

I am running into a very weird bug where setting $MinPrecisionto some value (in this case 200 has a very different and ...

asked by Kvothe https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=45020 3 votes

HankelTransform problem

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=236119

Somewhere in the following code there is a bug. The result should not be zero! FunctionExpand@HankelTransform[Sqrt[r] Cos[r], r, k, 1/2]

I think the answer should ...

asked by SolutionExists https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=70331 1 vote