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Global Computation Settings & Parameters

Mathematica is built to handle arbitrarily large computations—limited only by computer time and memory—and provides a collection of convenient global safety features to prevent programs from going out of control.

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Controlling Infinite Evaluation

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Limiting Computations

$RecursionLimit — maximum recursion depth

$IterationLimit — maximum number of iterations

$MaxPiecewiseCases ▪ $MaxRootDegree

TimeConstrained ▪ MemoryConstrained ▪ TimeConstraint

Numerics

$MaxExtraPrecision ▪ $MinPrecision ▪ $MaxPrecision ▪ $NumberMarks

Computational Parameters

$Assumptions — global assumptions to make about variables, etc.

Internals

$ModuleNumber ▪ $SessionID

SystemInformation ▪ Options ▪ CurrentValue

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