Lunchtime Playground: Fun with Mathematica

No advanced topic here, just some simple/silly/useless problems that slip into my mind during lunch break. Free use the contents in any way you like.

Oct 20, 2009

Wikipedia Page Analysis

Wikipedia has lots of scientific information, however, due to its nature, it is still not considered as a research resource. This doesn’t m...

Oct 15, 2009

Mathematica 7 on Windows 7

We just updated our machine from Windows Vista to Windows 7. I re-installed Mathematica 7 and tested with several notebooks. I didn’t notice...

Sep 23, 2009

Monitor Mathematica computation with email

One of the new features in Mathematica 7.0 is allowing the sending of email directly from any Mathematica program. It turns out very conve...

Aug 25, 2009

Visualize irrational number as random walk

Irrational numbers have decimal expansions that neither terminate nor become periodic. So we can get unlimited “random walk” steps from an i...

Aug 12, 2009

Display a plot by clicking a button

Ok, this seems to be very easy in Mathematica. Button["Show me a plot", Show[Plot[Sin[x], {x, -Pi, Pi}]]] Then you click the b...

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