4.35.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

4.35.2.1 Labeling individual curves in Mathematica
4.35.2.2 What does # mean in Mathematica?
4.35.2.1 Labeling individual curves in Mathematica

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/4444/labeling-individual-curves-in-mathematica

 
I need to create a plot for export and inclusion in a report. Is there a better way to label curves than PlotLegends? From what I've read and my personal experience, PlotLegends is pretty bad. 
 
Is  ...
 

- asked by Tianxiang Xiong (52 votes), answered by Artes (40 votes)

4.35.2.2 What does # mean in Mathematica?

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/19035/what-does-mean-in-mathematica

 
I asked Mathematica to compute the following 
 
Solve[c (1-x)^2-x^(1/4) == 0, x] 
 
 
and it returned this: 
 
 
x = Root[#1^8 c^4 - 8 #1^7 c^4 + 28 #1^6 c^4 - 56 #1^5 c^4 + 70 #1^4 c^4 - 56 #1^3 c^4 + 28  ...
 

- asked by ronanymous (20 votes), answered by Dr. belisarius (43 votes)