4.5.1 Top new questions this week

4.5.1.1 How to get a specified number of points that are nearly equally spaced in a closed rectangle

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136447/how-to-get-a-specified-number-of-points-that-are-nearly-equally-spaced-in-a-clos

 
TriangulateMesh is almost the right tool for this problem. For example, 
 
numb = 113; 
region = BoundaryMeshRegion[{{0, 0}, {3, 0}, {3, 1}, {0, 1}}, Line[{1, 2, 3, 4, 1}]]; 
mesh =  ...
 

- asked by Ted Ersek (17 votes), answered by Szabolcs (15 votes)

4.5.1.2 Tutorial on creating publication quality documents in Mathematica?

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136426/tutorial-on-creating-publication-quality-documents-in-mathematica

 
Are there books or tutorials that walk one through creating a professional publication quality notebook? 
 
For example, I would like to create a two column article using an IEEE format. Is this  ...
 

- asked by Doug Kimzey 13votes

4.5.1.3 Type conversions

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136476/type-conversions

 
I have the following list, each element of which is of type string: 
 
{"abc", "def","2","ghi","7"} 
 
 
Is there an efficient way to arrive at: 
 
{"abcdef", 2,"ghi",7} 
 
 
where adjacent alphabetic elements  ...
 

- asked by Suite401 (12 votes), answered by Bob Hanlon (8 votes)

4.5.1.4 Alternatives and the Flat attribute

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136157/alternatives-and-the-flat-attribute

 
When a head has the attribute Flat then the pattern matcher is able to pick out a sublist of its arguments, even though the structure doesn't match: 
 
SetAttributes[f, Flat]; 
f[a, b, c, d] /. f[a, b]  ...
 

- asked by Martin Ender 11votes

4.5.1.5 Assign names to Dataset columns

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136422/assign-names-to-dataset-columns

 
I am constructing a dataset like so: 
 
data = Dataset[AssociationThread[Keys[characterCounts], charFrequencies]] 
 
 
which gives me a dataset that looks like this: 
 
 
 
This is all fine, but as you can  ...
 

- asked by damjandd (10 votes), answered by Kuba (10 votes)

4.5.1.6 Dataset interferes with SeedRandom

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136339/dataset-interferes-with-seedrandom

 
This seems like a pretty awful bug: 
 
SeedRandom[1]; 
RandomInteger[10, 10] 
 
Out: {1,4,0,7,0,0,8,6,0,4} 
 
 
While: 
 
SeedRandom[1]; 
Dataset[<|a -> 1, b -> 2|>]; 
RandomInteger[10, 10] 
 
Out:  ...
 

- asked by Mohammed AlQuraishi 10votes

4.5.1.7 Problem with integrating DiracDelta

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/136214/problem-with-integrating-diracdelta

 
I thought I had found a bug in Mathematica and reported it already in version 9, since it wasn't fixed in version 10 or 11 I reported it two more times but I never get any reply whatsoever so I'm  ...
 

- asked by user3777022 (10 votes), answered by Julien Kluge (8 votes)