Version-specific issues for Mathematica 9
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Is it possible to improve Mathematica's auto-completion feature?
In this answer Brett Champion describes how one can intercept and modify the suggestions used for auto-completion.
Question: Is it possible to modify the suggestion for the automatic auto-completion ...
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Mathematica 9 cannot solve this Integral. Mathematica 8 could. Is this a bug?
I was trying to (re)calculate a problem of an older Wolfram blog post (Problem 11457, by M. L. Glasser) with Mathematica 9.0.0.0 (on OS X 10.8.2).
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DeleteDuplicates not deleting duplicates
It is not surprising that DeleteDuplicates[{5,5.}] returns {5,5.} because DeleteDuplicates ...
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Template completion
In version 8, if one evaluates
test::usage="test[x,y]";
then types test, then shift-cmd-k (or shift-ctrl-k), a template ...
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Is it possible to customize the Suggestions Bar?
I'd like to be able to customize the Suggestions Bar in v9.0 to provide recommendations of my own. Possible example: when doing unit calculations, I'd like it to suggest converting the answer to ...
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Install trial version of Mathematica 9 next to genuine Mathematica 8
This morning I installed the trial version of Mathematica 9. After I discovered that Export[] is disabled in trial versions, I wanted to use my genuine Mathematica ...
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Auto-completion doesn't work as my expectation in version 9.0
When I input the following line in version 8, and press Ctrl+K after Re, I can get a drop-down auto-completion list including ...
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Documentation searches hang frequently: Anyone else dealing with this?
I've been struggling with a number of hangs, dynamic timeouts, and outright crashes when using the search/documentation center in version 9. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling and clearing ...
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Version 9 Blue Screen or Self-Test Error on Windows 7 64-bit
Update There is now an official response from Wolfram Support on this issue.
Having recently installed Mathematica version 9 64-bit on Windows 7, I keep running into Self-Test Errors evaluating ...
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Bug in Solve (Mathematica 9)
Just came across the strangest bug under both Mathematica 9.0.0 and 9.0.1. If one enters:
Solve[m == p Sin[x] && -Pi/2 < x < Pi/2, x]
... then ...
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Graphics exported from Mathematica 9 are very large because even standard fonts are embedded
I've upgraded from Mathematica 8 to 9 (which apparently leaves the old version installed and usable which I didn't expect). I see a significant difference in the size of the PDFs produced by 'Save ...
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FindInstance returns Indeterminate in version 9, but not in 8
Here is a trivial system of equations in three unknowns for which FindInstance obtains a solution:
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Extract connected components from PNG image file and write to individual PNG files
Given the PNG image below with the three leaves in it, I'd like to extract each individual leaf and write it to its own PNG file, using Mathematica 9. Note that in the original image, the box bounding ...
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How to dynamically toggle curves on/off in a crowded Plot?
When multiple curves appear in a single plot, it is useful to interactively turn certain curves on or off to visually compare smaller numbers of curves. It is trivial to put a quick dynamic together, ...
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Simulating discrete time stochastic dynamic systems
What is the canonical way of simulating discrete time stochastic dynamical systems in Mathematica using the new functionality of Random processes?
To take a concrete example, lets consider the ...