7.29.1 Top new questions this week

7.29.1.1 Mathematica 12.3.1 CapForm does not work with ContourStyle anymore?

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Just upgraded to 12.3.1 from 12.1. 
In 12.3.1, 
... 
[plotting] [style] [compatibility] [dashing]
 

asked by ThunderBiggi https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=18695 10 votes

answered by ihojnicki https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=18638 12 votes

7.29.1.2 Understanding Partition

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I came across the difficulty of understanding the logic of interaction of the fourth and fifth arguments of  Partition . 
Here is an example: 
... 
[list-manipulation] [partitions]
 

asked by Alexey Popkov https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=280 8 votes

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

7.29.1.3 Telling Mathematica to treat square roots as real valued

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I often deal with problems which I know are real-valued, but Mathematica skips some simplifications because it doesn't know which branch of  Sqrt  to take. Is there ... 
[algebraic-manipulation]
 

asked by Yaroslav Bulatov https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=217 7 votes

answered by E. Chan-López https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=53427 4 votes

7.29.1.4 AnyTrue is too good (compared to MemberQ)

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Let L be a list of integers, and  denote an explicit integer. 
I've thought the most natural way to tell whether  belongs to L is 
 In[1]  MemberQ[L, ] 
 
But there ... 
[list-manipulation] [functions] [performance-tuning] [built-in-symbols]
 

asked by imida k https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=34532 7 votes

answered by Carl Woll https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=45431 6 votes

7.29.1.5 Multiplication with zero

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So I have a function $f(x) = g(x) h(x)$ that I want to evaluate on a large discrete set $\Lambda$ expressed as a list. I have that $g$ is complicated and takes time to evaluate at each point in the ... 
[performance-tuning]
 

asked by spaceman https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=77847 6 votes

answered by Henrik Schumacher https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=38178 8 votes

7.29.1.6 New offset Dashing argument in 12.3

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After finding out that in 12.3 two new optional arguments have been added to  Dashing , I decided to have a look at them. Unfortuantely, I don't understand the way ... 
[graphics] [documentation] [version-12.3] [dashing]
 

asked by ThunderBiggi https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=18695 6 votes

7.29.1.7 Smoother boundaries between components of segmented image

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=253824

I'd like to use boundaries between components of a segmented image to create a mesh for finite elements, as described in Mesh for Images for three materials and meshes with multiple regions from 2D ... 
[image-processing] [mesh] [smoothing]
 

asked by tad https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=70428 6 votes

answered by Alexey Popkov https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=280 3 votes