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181 votes

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feature-request badges badge-request asked Dec 21 '11 at 16:02
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175 votes

Alternatives to procedural loops and iterating over lists in Mathematica

performance-tuning programming coding-style asked Apr 30 '11 at 0:16
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109 votes

Why are numeric division and subtraction not handled better in Mathematica?

performance-tuning numerics system arithmetic language-design asked Jan 22 '14 at 17:34
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84 votes

How can I generate this “domain coloring” plot?

plotting complex asked Jun 23 '12 at 11:06
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Incompatible Changes since Mathematica Version 7?

syntax core-language documentation backward-compatibility asked Aug 6 '14 at 6:07
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DumpsterDoofus's captivating generative art

code-request generative-art asked Oct 30 '14 at 11:21
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61 votes

How to “Copy as Unicode” from a Notebook?

character-encoding clipboard unicode copy-as named-characters asked Feb 1 '12 at 22:11
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59 votes

How do I evaluate only one step of an expression?

programming evaluation asked Jan 20 '12 at 9:17
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53 votes

Placement of Condition /; expressions

coding-style asked Jan 23 '12 at 11:58
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How can I calculate a jigsaw puzzle cut path?

computational-geometry puzzle asked Jun 12 '12 at 6:19
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Alternatives to procedural loops and iterating over lists in Mathematica
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What are the standard colors for plots in Mathematica 10?
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xkcd-style Plots
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Why round to even integers?
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What does the construct f[x_] := f[x] = … mean?
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Is it possible to define a new PlotTheme?
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Generating a Sierpinski carpet
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Incompatible Changes since Mathematica Version 7?
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What are the most common pitfalls awaiting new users?
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How do I save a variable or function definition to a file?
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when is f@g not the same as f[g]?
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Having a dark theme for Stack Exchange sites
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How to avoid returning a Null if there is no “else” condition in an If construct
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Injecting a sequence of expressions into a held expression
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Partitioning with varying partition size
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How to form a block-diagonal matrix from a list of matrices?
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Funny behaviour when plotting a polynomial of high degree and large coefficients
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Head and everything except Head?
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Elegant operations on matrix rows and columns
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Scan vs. Map vs. Apply
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What are the most common pitfalls awaiting new users?
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What are SparseArray Properties? How and when should they be used?
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Enforcing correct variable bindings and avoiding renamings for conflicting variables in nested scoping constructs
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Understanding differences between Maple and Mathematica in examples picked by Maplesoft
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Using a list of tuples in a pure function
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Using a PatternTest versus a Condition for pattern matching
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How do I evaluate only one step of an expression?
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Functions with Options
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How to remove redundant {} from a nested list of lists?
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Can a function be made to accept a variable amount of inputs?
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