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A.13.4 Between Versions 3 and 4

• 61 new built-in objects have been added, some of whose names may conflict with names already being used.
N[0] now yields a machine-precision zero rather than an exact zero.
FullOptions has been superseded by
AbsoluteOptions, which yields results in the same form as Options.
Element[x, y] or  now has built-in evaluation rules.
• The symbols I and E are now output in StandardForm as  (\[ImaginaryI]) and  (\[ExponentialE]) respectively.
• A new second argument has been added to CompiledFunction to allow easier manipulation and composition of compiled functions.



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