# Tagged Questions

Questions on the manipulation of List objects in Mathematica, and the functions used for these manipulations.

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### Plot several lines with different starting points on the x-axis

First of all, I would like to apologize in advance if I don't use the correct terms or if I express myself unclear but I just started to work with Mathematica. I'm simulating electricity prices and ...
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### Find continuous sequences inside a list

I have a list which is something like this: {3,4,5,6,7,10,11,12,15,16,17,19,20,21,22,23,24,42,43,44,45,46} What I'd like to to is get the intervals which are in ...
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### Keeping axes fixed in an Animate of a 3D graphic

I am using the following code to animate a 20 3D ListPointPlots: ...
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### How can I find if the number of subsets for a list is very large?

I'm trying to find the following; Subsets[Range[2, 2300], {4}] but my computer gave the following error: ...
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### How can I make threading more flexible?

Threading automatically with Listable functions requires the argument expressions to have the same length (or for one of them to be atomic). For nested lists the ...
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### Logical AND operation over several comparisons

Let x and y be arrays defined as Array[x, m], Array[y,n] respectively. How to generate the following function of $x$ and $y$ for variable $k$ ...
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### Including two ListLinePlots in a 3D graphic

I have two lists of data which I am plotting on two ListLinePlots. I would like to have these two plots appear perpendicular to each other on a 3D graphic. I have ...
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### How to combine file data chronologically via reading numbers in a filename and put it in one list?

Say I have a bunch of files with nearly same filename, eg. data_timestep1, data_timestep2, ... The data itself in one file is ({x1, y1, z1, absolute field value 1}, {x2, y2, z2, absolute field value ...
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### Extracting the integers from a list

I have a list where the elements are Reals and Integers. How can I extract the Integer? For example, if I have {1, 2, 3.4, 9.9}, how can I get ...
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### Summation over 3 lists

I have three lists. As an example, a = {10, 5, 6, 8, 7}; b = {4, 8, 9, 7, 9}; c = {7, 5, 12, 4, 1}; I want to get x(i)=\sum ...
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### Error in extracting a column [duplicate]

I imported excel data to Mathematica using this command. kuruzD = Import[ "C:\\Users\\TMH\\Documents\\Problem Set 4\\kuruzData.xlsx"][[1]] //TableForm I want to ...
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### How to find intersection of multiple lists excluding empty ones?

I have lists like list1={1, 1, 2, 3}; list2={3, 1, 4}; list3={}; I want to find the intersection of all list. I tried the following way, but it's not working. ...
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### What ways are there to convert an Integer to a list of digits?

How can I convert an Integer to list of numbers? For example: 781049 ==> {7, 8, 1, 0, 4, 9} What are the possible ways of ...
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### Efficient code for building a big list

I would like replace the following code ...
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### DataRange problem in a ListLinePlot within a Manipulate

I'm trying to create a simulation of a set of lists with Manipulate[] and ListLinePlot[]. However, as my simulation starts with ...
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### Creating ordered triplets from an Excel sheet

I have an Excel sheet of the form: " " a b c 1 R S T 2 U V W 3 X Y Z Where every entry is a number (except the blank quotes, ...
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### DeleteCases and Inequalities [duplicate]

I would like to remove cases from a list according to an inequality rule - e.g. remove all values less than x. I can do the following but this seems very clumsy: ...
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### How to prevent errors in Manipulate with ListPlot when a result is an empty list?

I am trying to plot two lists, where one is the reference list, and the other is only used to select and highlight the first list. Basically, I want to use the selection list ...
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### Removing zero values from ordered pairs

I have some processed data, which are basically a collection of ordered pairs in the form: {{x1, y1}, {x2, y2}, ..., {xn, yn}} Ordered pairs which have either a ...
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### Matrix Rotation

If I have a 2 D matrix of any size say $\left( \begin{array}{ccc} 72 & 32 & 64 \\ 18 & 8 & 16 \\ 63 & 28 & 56 \\ \end{array} \right)$ \$\left( \begin{array}{cc} 72 & ...
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### Speeding up a simple simulation with random extractions

I wonder if anybody can help, I need a hand with a simple simulation I am writing with Mathematica (I am using version 8). Basically it creates a list (called l) with numbers from 1 to n and a random ...
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### Better method for creating a tuple out of two lists

I just combined two lists using this method ...
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### How to construct a new list made from a function that operates on two lists

I need to take two lists (each list contains the number of moles of a chemical). I have a function calledFraction that takes the each entry of the list and then calculates the mole fraction of ...
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### List of numbers without common factors with a certain number

Is there any function in Mathematica which directly gives an array of integer numbers with no common factor with a certain integer number? For example, all the integer numbers between 0 and 1728, ...
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### Convenient methods to sum select rows (or cols) of a matrix? [duplicate]

What are some convenient methods to sum selected rows or columns in a matrix? This question Summing along rows or columns of a matrix only addresses how to sun entire rows or columns ie, by level. ...
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### Trouble with Flatten[]

I made this function: f[g_] := Table[{ToExpression[ToString[x] <> ToString[n]], 1, 3}, {n, 1, g}] When I evaluate the function with some g (say 8), I'll ...
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### How to blend some colors on a curve

I need to define a color gradient on a 3D curve, but I'm having some problems with this. Suppose we have a 3D curve defined as a parametric function of some real variable ...
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### Accessing list elements by name

First, a bit of a long introduction to my problem: I only have a few weeks of Mathematica experience. I am creating a mathematica application that calculates some material properties of steel based ...
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### Can the elements of a list always be sorted into a canonical order?

As the title states - does a unique order exist for any Mathematica list to be sorted by the Sort[] function (or as returned by a function that treats lists as sets)? While I'm pretty sure the answer ...
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### How do I group a nested list further according to a rule, and average selected elements?

I have a nested list of numbers like { {36, -244}, {37, -225}, {38, -197}, {48, -200}, {49, -181}, {50, -133} } which needs to be further nested into "bins" according to a rule. I would describe the ...
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### How to change the value of an array that is outside the For loop, from inside the For loop [closed]

H is a square matrix which depends on the vector d which I define below. I redefine d in each iteration but I need to plug it in H in each iteration aswell. It is easy if I define H inside the For ...
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### How to add lists with unequal length?

Given lists of unequal lengths, I want to add them together element-wise, treating missing elements as zero. For example, {1, 2, 3} + {a, b} + {x} should give ...
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### Creating a list from other lists and varying the number of elements that get added

Suppose I have listA = {M, F} and ListB = {a,b,c} I want to make a new ...
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### Using a loop to make a new list by taking elements from multiple lists [closed]

I have defined three lists and I need to be able to take elements from them periodically and put them in a new list. I know I need to use some form of a loop but I am at a loss. Any suggestions?
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### How to extract data from a list? [duplicate]

I have a long list of coordinates defined in some 8D space. I need to extract the first three coordinates only. How ? For example : ...
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### List reversion inspired by Python

In python, if you wish to reverse a list, here is the trick: range(10)[::-1] => [9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0] Note: ...
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### How to store values indexed by integer partitions for fast access?

I have a huge list of values indexed by integer partitions. If I store them simply in a list, then, when I want to access the value corresponding to some particular integer partition, I have to find ...
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### Translating MATLAB's cell2mat into Mathematica

How I can define a function in Mathematica such that it acts same as the cell2mat command in MATLAB? Example (in MATLAB): ...
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### How do I divide the columns of a matrix by the sum of its elements?

I am trying to create a transition matrix for a network. In order to do this, I need to sum down the column (the out degree), and then divide the column by the out degree in order to normalize it. ...
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### Dynamic List Building and Exporting [closed]

My ultimate goal is to have a text file that contains the following information in the following format exported to a text file: ...
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### ListPlot of lists with specified x coordinate

I want to do: ListPlot[{{x1, y1}, {x2, y2}, ...}] each y being not a number but a list of numbers. I tried: ...
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### Creating list within function [closed]

I'm probably doing something wrong here and would appreciate some insight into what! ...
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### Sorting a matrix alphanumerically

Somewhat related to Sort matrix by columns and rows without changing them, but more general. I'd like to sort a square matrix (a 3 by 3 in my case, but surely the general solution will treat any), ...
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### How can I name “a[[i]]” the parts of Table “a”? Or how to make Table “a” grow inside FindMinimum?

Let's say I want to minimize a function that uses a Table named a with the Conjugate Gradient Method of ...
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### Adding and subtracting from elements in a list

I'm trying to solve an aparently simple problem. Given a list of length n, {a1,b1,c1,d1...} I want to perform two simple ...
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### Mark selected sub-lists in the list they were selected from

I've got this simple problem with two lists. I select some items from a list, but I want to visualize the difference between the previous list and the list that I create with ...
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### Building a continued fraction

I've completed a problem that involves approximating $e$ by a continued fraction: $$\frac{N_1}{D_1+\frac{N_2}{D_2+\frac{N_3}{\ddots+\frac{N_k}{D_k}}}}$$ with the $N_i$ being the list ...
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### Preparing data for making an ErrorListPlot

I often have the following notebook in Mathematica, which I use to make a dataset and associated errors: ...
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### Convert coefficients of polynomials into a matrix

I have several sets of 5 polynomials of the form: ...
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### How can I use list processing functions on data in a file?

How might I work with the following functions on a list, if the list is a disk based file? Partition[] DeleteDuplicates[] Split[] SortBy[] The file is too ...
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