the combination of things in it definitely has allusions and the likelihood of them being unintentional seem a bit low, but you never know...

Those into differential equations, final build of V 14.2 test vs. Maple can be found here V 14.2 score was 95.211% and Maple 2024.2 was 95.840%. Mathematica seems to be catching up. But Mathematica is still slower. Not sure why. Any bugs found please let me know so I can fix them for next time.

@Nasser I think your link (localhost) is not very useful... :(

@kirma opps, sorry about that, here is the external page Just make sure if you want to look a the PDF, it is very large. Better to download and open on the PC. some browsers might hang (or take very long time to open) on large PDF's I found.

@Nasser ah, better now :)

@xzczd @bmf @JimB Generally, it's in breach with the code of conduct if it causes harm, even if the harm is inadvertent. Even if 11 is a reference to the sacred number in Hinduism and signifies spiritual awakening, since the user is from India, it could still be a breach of the code of conduct since it means something else to other users. But this is kind of an edge case and I'm not sure what to do. I'm leaning towards removing it since of all the avatars on the site, this stands out.

@C.E. @xzczd @bmf when I looked for 11 symbols nothing came up that looked vaguely similar to the users avatar. It might very well be that the user is not aware of the relation to nazi symbolism. I'd think it would be good to contact the user about that and make them aware that this is somewhat problematic.

A change in color and/or a different font might already provide enough difference. I think it's important in today's times where racism and fascism are en vogue again (unbelievable!) to work against this by education.

@user21 that's the best approach I think. explaining to a person some basic facts about the colours on the avatar, plus some of its interpretations etc. as you said education is the best weapon in our quivers

I made a comment on one of his questions now, hopefully he will see it.

Has Mathematica gained any functionality to easily zero out the diagonal of a matrix, or replace it with some value? In R, this is as easy as diag(mat) <- 0. In Mathematica the best I could do was a ReplacePart, but this is neither simple nor performant, and becomes especially difficult when we want to overwrite the diagonal with a vector instead of a single value.

@bmf Yes, exactly. These should really be public functions. Do they work on sparse arrays? (I can check myself a bit later.)

@Szabolcs yes, they do from a quick check I did