Questions tagged [symbols]
Mathematica symbols are the ultimate atoms of symbolic data. Every symbol has a unique name, exists in a certain Mathematica context or namespace, and can have a variety of types of values and attributes.
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How to convert symbols like x1 to $x_1$, but handle differentials like dH1 to $dH_1$ in Mathematica?
I need help with a symbol transformation in Mathematica. I want to convert symbols such as x1 to Subscript[x, 1], but I need to handle differentials (as simple ...
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What is the difference between Clear and Remove?
I assume that there is difference between the commands Clear and Remove. But it seems to me that I am not aware of any caveats ...
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Is this list of Formal Symbols complete? Which versions have unprotected Formal Symbols?
Formal Symbols are protected against being assigned values, making them handy for avoiding name collisions for things like fit parameters and pattern matching. Because formal symbols (and others) like ...
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Keep list of user-definitions
Is there some easy way to keep track of user defined definitions. Or perhaps even better definitions made while some definitionRecordingFlag==True.
This is prompted ...
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Intercepting typos/misstyped symbols and automatically correcting them in the FrontEnd
I often mistype Print[] as PRint[] and Remove[] as REmove[]. I was wondering if its possible to use $NewSymbol to intercept ...
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How to obtain all definitions in which a symbol appears?
My question is very similar to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5840313/how-to-get-all-definitions-associated-with-other-symbols except I am looking to find all definitions in which a symbol ...
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Functions involving variables that have been "Symbolized"
I used the Notation package to symbolize expressions of the form Superscript[u,_]. I then proceeded to manually input the values ...
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Why must the "&" symbol be placed inside function instead of outside? [closed]
The following code is taken from Wolfram Community "Quantum Error Correction: bit flip".
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Do symbolic integration of function including \[ScriptCapitalL]
I have done a symbolic integration in mathematica 13.2 as follow
Integrate[-((Sqrt[-r(r - 2 l)] l)/(r(r - 2 l) (-r + l))), r] // Simplify[#, r > 0] &
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Temporary symbol leaks into public context?
This phenomenon has confused me a long time. Consider the following package example,
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What is the relationship between a list of symbols created by a specific name, and a expression with such a name?
I'm trying to create a list of symbols called "x" for calculating symbolic gradients of some functions, so I write:
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Purple color text related with RowBox
Type the first line of following code and press enter key.
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Annoying Glitch when inserting symbols
Anybody else had this glitch when inserting symbols
This should be ::Delta
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Basic question Sort criteria
Can you explain the following codes? (output of codes)
I know that
there is the default ordering for any expression in Mathematica
and Sort uses the default ...
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