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Mathematica includes three functions that I know of which can be used to effectively (if not actually) define a variable and give it a value within a local scope: ...
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In version 10 one can define, say, $PlotTheme = "Scientific" Which changes the appearance of all plots. This is fantastic because on the one hand I can have nice ...
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One difficulty I'm encountering in studying the structure of Graphics objects is that I have not yet found a way to print or display such structures that are ...
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I would like to know how can I completely copy one Symbol to another. When I say copy, a refer to UpValues, DownValues, ...
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I have come across the (internal) use of the function: Internal`LocalizedBlock I am trying to determine its purpose. It seem to behave like ...
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I'm confused about the renaming mechanism of With: ...
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In this nice answer, Mr.Wizard writes ...
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Block[{x}, ClearAll@x] ClearAll::clloc: Cannot clear local variable x. The documentation just says An error occurs because ClearAll cannot be used with a ...
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After calling some functions, if I look into $ContextPath, I can see that JLink` is in there. Is there a way to find out what ...
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Some plotting functions produce a Graphics with a "ScalingFunctions" suboption within the ...
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