================================== Top new questions this week: ================================== [Extracting angles from a simple picture]\url{http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/41563/extractin g-angles-from-a-simple-picture} I'm not sure if this is even possible with Mathematica, but I want to extract the angles between all lines in this picture: It consists of $12$ lines, so I want a matrix with $144$ entries. I ... - asked by holistic (13 votes), answered by Kuba (14 votes) ---------------------------- [Shuffle product of two lists]\url{http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/41614/shuffle-pro duct-of-two-lists} I want to do the following: I have two lists {a_1,...a_n}, {b_1,...,b_n} and I would like to build now all shuffles out of this. This means all unions of these lists while still keeping the individual ... - asked by A friendly helper (12 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (9 votes) ---------------------------- [Strange behavior when using Row with packed arrays]\url{http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/41653/strange-be havior-when-using-row-with-packed-arrays} Today I lost a lot of time with a strange behavior and I narrowed it down to this small piece of code: a = {1, 2}; ToString@Row[DeleteDuplicates[a], ","] ToString@Row[Union[a], ","] "Row[{1, 2}, ... - asked by Murta (11 votes), answered by Szabolcs (11 votes) ---------------------------- [Graphics`Mesh`FindIntersections[ ] fails to detect intersections]\url{http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/41496/gra phicsmeshfindintersections-fails-to-detect-intersections} Graphics`Mesh`FindIntersections[ ] is an undocumented function for, well, detecting intersections very efficiently. Take a look: i = Import@"http://i.stack.imgur.com/PcWcz.png"; perim = ... - asked by belisarius (10 votes) ---------------------------- [Checking through an expression]\url{http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/41324/checki ng-through-an-expression} I am writing a code that manipulates expressions that contains functions with an arbitrary number of arguments. An example expression is expr = x f[a, b, c, d] - 4 f[b, a, d] + z f[] + f[a, b, d] - ... - asked by QuantumDot (7 votes), answered by Artes (5 votes) ---------------------------- [LengthWhile until first duplication]\url{http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/41469/lengt hwhile-until-first-duplication} I have the need to trim each of a large number of potentially very long lists (10^6+ elements) to the length where the last occurrence of any distinct element happens, or said another way, where the ... - asked by rasher (7 votes), answered by rasher (2 votes) ---------------------------- [Why do I get a different value when I change the order of integration?]\url{http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/41454/why- do-i-get-a-different-value-when-i-change-the-order-of-integration} I think the following two-dimensional integrals should be equal, since they both integrate the function over the half plane defined by $t>\tau$. $$\int_{-\infty}^\infty \mathrm{d}t ... - asked by Jason B (7 votes), answered by Michael E2 (9 votes) ================================== Greatest hits from previous weeks: ================================== [How to get intersection values from a parametric graph?]\url{http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/33947/how-to-get -intersection-values-from-a-parametric-graph} I have this graphed: ParametricPlot[{2.4*Cos[t] + 1.6*Cos[3 t/2], 2.4*Sin[t] - 1.6 Sin[3 t/2]}, {t, 0, 4*Pi}] It is a star, and the lines cross each other twice in the third quadrant. I need to ... - asked by guest (14 votes), answered by Artes (17 votes) ---------------------------- [Finding the best way to visualize rather complicated data]\url{http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/33429/finding-the- best-way-to-visualize-rather-complicated-data} I have the following data data = {{7.5, 12.45, 12.45, 12.75, 12.75, 12.25, 12.25, 12.53, 12.53}, {8.5, 12.22, 12.22, 12.23, 12.23, 13, 13, 12.54, 12.54}, {9.5, 11.58, 11.53, 12.75, 13.48, 12.39, ... - asked by Vaggelis_Z (12 votes), answered by Pinguin Dirk (10 votes) ================================== Can you answer these? ================================== [Load a Mathematica Notebook using .Net code]\url{http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/41410/load-a-mathe matica-notebook-using-net-code} I have gotten a tremendous amount of information from the question posted at (Load a Mathematica Package via .Net code), which my application is very similar to. Specifically in that thread, the ... - asked by Josh (1 vote) ---------------------------- [Trying to find the best Pade approximant for a given numer of terms]\url{http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/41620/trying-to-f ind-the-best-pade-approximant-for-a-given-numer-of-terms} Let suppose that I have a function $f[x]$ I want to approximate using a Pade expansion and that I decide what would be maximum number of terms to be used. Is there any way with Mathematica to find ... - asked by Claude Leibovici (1 vote) ---------------------------- [Estimation of vector autoregressive (VAR) process]\url{http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/41330/estimatio n-of-vector-autoregressive-var-process} To estimate 1-dimensional VAR process (which is AR process) you can easily use functions EstimatedProcess or FindProcessParameters like this: sample = RandomFunction[ARProcess[{.2,-.4},.1], {1,300}]; ... - asked by matt525252 (3 votes)