2.17 Thursday, August 13, 2020

2.17.1 Top new questions this week
2.17.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks
2.17.3 Can you answer these questions?

2.17.1 Top new questions this week

Which function names have been re-purposed in Mathematica after being deprecated?
StringJoin in Thread not working
Using sequence to complete arguments to a function
How can I get the progressive application of list of rules?
Finding the Period of a Limit Cycle
Assigning a Color to each Point on the Plane
using regex to find a specific word

Which function names have been re-purposed in Mathematica after being deprecated?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=228295

I have just learned about the new function Splice from this answer. It turns out that this function used to have a completely different usage! (See below.) To me, this seems dangerous, to deprecate a ...

asked by march https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=29734 14 votes

answered by J. M.’s technical difficulties https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=50 9 votes

StringJoin in Thread not working

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=228320

Here is what I have tried first.

Thread[f["x", {"1", "2"}]] 
 
{f["x", "1"], f["x", "2"]}

But the weirdest thing happened when I ...

asked by kile https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=65814 7 votes

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

Using sequence to complete arguments to a function

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=228363

I have a function of, say 4 arguments f[a,b,{c,e},d] where some of the arguments are lists. Given a list of triplets that are possible last-three-arguments to f I’d like to paste them as arguments to ...

asked by ulvi https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1714 6 votes

answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 7 votes

How can I get the progressive application of list of rules?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=228088

I have a very long list of rules, and using this list of rules I want to see how some elements evolve as I successively apply the next rules on the previous rule.

Here is the simpler version of my ...

asked by Gummala Navneeth https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=66938 6 votes

answered by march https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=29734 9 votes

Finding the Period of a Limit Cycle

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=228319

I’m interested in the periods of limit cycles of the Wilson-Cowan equations which have the form \[x'(t) = -x + S(ax(t) - by(t) +e)\] \[y'(t) = -y + S(cx(t) - dy(t) + f)\] where \[S(x) = 1 + \] ...

asked by Cheyne https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=74162 5 votes

answered by Chris K https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=6358 6 votes

Assigning a Color to each Point on the Plane

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=228423

I have a dataset consisting of points on the plane and a corresponding color. These colors divide the plane into a few distinct regions. I would like to make a plot or diagram that nicely shows this ...

asked by Cheyne https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=74162 5 votes

answered by C. E. https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=731 4 votes

using regex to find a specific word

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=228278

I want to find the word "circle" and "circles" in the list.

list = {"circle" , "picircle" , "circles" }

The regex code I wrote which isn’t working:

asked by Aryan https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=73776 5 votes

answered by Natas https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=67431 7 votes

2.17.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

Can Mathematica do symbolic linear algebra?
How to make the digits of go around in a spiral like this?
How to plot an ellipse?
Standard deck of 52 playing cards in curated data?
Skip header lines on import
How to graph a sphere with cartesian equations?
How to create a new "person curve"?

Can Mathematica do symbolic linear algebra?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=3242

For instance, is there some way I can say "let A and B be arbitrary real \(m\times n\) and \(k\times m\) matrices, Simplify[Transpose[Transpose[A].Transpose[B]]]" and Mathematica would simplify it to B.A? ...

asked by Niki Estner https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=242 63 votes

answered by Chip Hurst https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4346 6 votes

How to make the digits of go around in a spiral like this?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=109982

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 matrix89 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5379 56 votes

answered by Martin Ender https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=2305 71 votes

How to plot an ellipse?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=20100

I’m new to Mathematica, and I’m finding it difficult to plot an ellipse. I tried using

Plot[(x/5)^2 + (y/3)^2 == 1, {x, -5, 5}, {y, -3, 3}]

but I’m getting some errors. Is there something wrong ...

asked by Sriram https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=6075 17 votes

answered by Jens https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=245 29 votes

Standard deck of 52 playing cards in curated data?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=16108

I am not sure how to find out what all is included as curated data. For example, are the individual images of each of the 52 cards in a standard deck of playing cards included?

If not, is there a way ...

asked by JohnD https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1629 25 votes

answered by rm -rf https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=5 23 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 to put in front of header lines so ...

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

How to graph a sphere with cartesian equations?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=24169

I’m new to Mathematica and I need to ask how to graph a sphere, cylinder, etc.. using cartesian equations.

For example in sphere’s case \(x^2+y^2+z^2=1\)

I tried to use Plot3D but it doesn’t ...

asked by German https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=7145 7 votes

answered by Dr. belisarius https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=193 13 votes

How to create a new "person curve"?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=17704

Wolfram|Alpha has a whole collection of parametric curves that create images of famous people. To see them, enter WolframAlpha["person curve"] into a Mathematica notebook, or person curve into ...

asked by Simon https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=34 83 votes

answered by Vitaliy Kaurov https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13 45 votes

2.17.3 Can you answer these questions?

Mathematica 12.0 and BibTeX reference problem (Windows 10)
How to convince Mathematica that \((-1)^{2/3} = e^{2\pi i /3}\)
How to monitor progress of multiple downloads with URLDownload?

Mathematica 12.0 and BibTeX reference problem (Windows 10)

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=228347

I have problems getting the Citation Management in Mathematica 12.0 to work. It does not work with either EndNote or BibTeX. To do a minimal example, I have the following BibTeX file (libra.bib) ...

asked by jaclea https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=7911 1 vote

How to convince Mathematica that \((-1)^{2/3} = e^{2\pi i /3}\)

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=228257

I have a list T which contains 3 + 4*E^(2*Pi*I/3). Yet MemberQ[ T , 3 + 4*(-1)^(2/3) ] 
returns false. 
One can check for themselves with MemberQ[{3 + 4*E^(2*Pi*I/3)}, 3 + 4*(-1)^(2/3)]. 
It will return  ...

asked by Descartes Before the Horse https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=69355 2 votes

How to monitor progress of multiple downloads with URLDownload?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=228403

I have a few image urls that I want to download async, how can we monitor progress of URLDownload? Example:

Monitor[ 
    URLDownload[ 
         WebImageSearch["dog",  ...

asked by M.R. https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=403 1 vote