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added by rcollyer Dec 16 '11 at 23:26

Similarly any question along the lines of "how would I make this type of Mathematica-produced graphic look this particular way?" would be on-topic for this group. – Verbeia Dec 16 '11 at 23:34

up vote 12 down vote

added by Sjoerd C. de Vries, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Dec 18 '11 at 10:07

This is an explicitly non-programming question and would certainly be off-topic on SO. It could be on-topic in SU but would be unlikely to attract expertise there. – Verbeia Dec 17 '11 at 0:24

@Verbeia That's good isn't it? – Sjoerd C. de Vries Dec 17 '11 at 0:27

Yes, it is. Definitely. – rcollyer Dec 17 '11 at 0:29

@Sjoerd, yes, I am pre-inoculating the site from complaints that it will overlap with SO, in order to make the case for the separate site – Verbeia Dec 17 '11 at 0:31

Agree, This one is something that is unlikely to be answered anywhere else and is a big reason why I support this. – nixeagle Dec 17 '11 at 17:37

up vote 11 down vote

added by Verbeia, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Dec 20 '11 at 16:25

Mathematica includes a lot of functionality requiring domain-specific knowledge. People with this knowledge might not be attracted to SO and could be scattered over many other sites if there is not a Mma-specific one. The extensions could include things like recent developments in the domain-specific literature, e.g. derivatives pricing using stable-distributed underlying processes rather than the traditional Gaussian. – Verbeia Dec 16 '11 at 23:46

up vote 11 down vote

added by Isaac Dec 17 '11 at 0:12

This is a question most likely to be asked by an end-user. The answer does not involve programming and would be off-topic on SO. It would be very unlikely to get an answer on SU. – Verbeia Dec 17 '11 at 0:18

up vote 10 down vote

added by rcollyer, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Dec 18 '11 at 10:06

While not specifically off-topic for SO, it is more of a configuration question, i.e. SU, but would most likely be answered on a domain specific site. – rcollyer Dec 16 '11 at 23:38

up vote 10 down vote

added by Verbeia Dec 16 '11 at 21:18

	This is an explicitly non-programming question and would certainly be off-topic on SO. – Verbeia Dec 16 '11 at 22:06
	But yet so useful and is a question I have been wanting to ask myself. Especially bibliography styles. Do people get to submit potential answers too? If so I'd love to know how :). – nixeagle Dec 17 '11 at 17:39
	Yes, the comment is simply to indicate that this question would off topic on SO and that is why we need a dedicated site. – Verbeia Dec 17 '11 at 21:49

up vote 10 down vote

added by Verbeia Dec 16 '11 at 22:04

Similarly, any questions on "how to make this code run faster?", help me improve this Mathematica code etc. – Verbeia Dec 16 '11 at 22:06

up vote 10 down vote

added by Verbeia Dec 16 '11 at 22:07

This is not really a programming question. It is taken directly from whuber's suggested question on the previous proposal – Verbeia Dec 16 '11 at 22:08

up vote 10 down vote

added by rcollyer Dec 16 '11 at 23:29

up vote 10 down vote

added by Brett Champion Dec 17 '11 at 16:33

(+1 if I had votes left) Indeed, we need installation related questions too. Perhaps some OS related ones as well. – Sjoerd C. de Vries Dec 17 '11 at 18:23

up vote 9 down vote

added by Isaac Dec 17 '11 at 0:11

up vote 9 down vote

added by Phira Dec 17 '11 at 11:09

	I would like an example question where one can see that it is not clear whether the problem is a programming one or a mathematical one. Unfortunately, the above already has the max number of characters. – Phira Dec 17 '11 at 15:40
	I had a question along these lines on SO: stackoverflow.com/questions/7743774/… – Peeter Joot Dec 17 '11 at 17:25

up vote 7 down vote

added by Brett Champion Dec 17 '11 at 16:02

We expect that Workbench, MathModelica and other Mathematica-related products will be on-topic but Wolfram|Alpha will be off-topic except to the extent that it can be used from within Mathematica 8+ – Verbeia Dec 17 '11 at 22:21

up vote 6 down vote

added by Brett Champion Dec 17 '11 at 16:27

up vote 5 down vote

added by Faysal Aberkane, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Dec 18 '11 at 10:08

I like this question, I just wish I had more votes. – rcollyer Dec 18 '11 at 5:00

up vote 2 down vote

added by Sjoerd C. de Vries, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Dec 20 '11 at 16:26

This is a good example of a question that falls between SU and SO, because the answer might or might not involve typing some Mathematica code, and the asker has no way of knowing in advance whether "programming" is required. – Verbeia Dec 17 '11 at 1:19

up vote 2 down vote

added by Faysal Aberkane, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Dec 18 '11 at 10:08

This would be interesting but i can't think of a situation where one would need to simulate oop; any ideas? – jclozano Dec 20 '11 at 15:44

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added by charles@abstractmath.org Dec 17 '11 at 15:28

	What do you mean by the dimensionality of a graph? – Szabolcs Dec 18 '11 at 20:51
	@Szabolcs Charles probably meant non-planar graphs. – Leonid Shifrin Dec 19 '11 at 12:19
	@Leonid Ah, I see. Then he meant: `GraphPlot3D` by default doesn't render directed edges as such – Szabolcs Dec 19 '11 at 12:27