Permutation Lists (Mathematica Tutorial)

A possible way of working with permutations is by relating them to the reorderings of the elements of a list. This is the standard point of view in the combinatorial approach ...

Distribute (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Distribute[f[x_1, x_2, ...]] distributes f over Plus appearing in any of the x_i. Distribute[expr, g] distributes over g. Distribute[expr, g, f] performs the distribution ...

Series Expansions (Mathematica Guide)

Power series are in many ways the algebraic analog of limited-precision numbers. Mathematica can generate series approximations to virtually any combination of built-in ...

\[Square] (Mathematica Character Name)

Unicode: F520. Alias: Esc sq Esc. Prefix operator.  x is by default interpreted as Square[x]. Used in mathematical physics to denote the d'Alembertian operator. Sometimes ...

ChessboardDistance (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ChessboardDistance[u, v] gives the chessboard, Chebyshev, or sup norm distance between vectors u and v.

PointSize (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

PointSize[d] is a graphics directive which specifies that points which follow are to be shown if possible as circular regions with diameter d. The diameter d is given as a ...

Shortest (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Shortest[p] is a pattern object that matches the shortest sequence consistent with the pattern p.

SetArithmetic (Computer Arithmetic Package Symbol)

SetArithmetic[d] sets the number of digits of precision d to be used in ComputerNumber objects.SetArithmetic[d, b] sets the number of digits of precision d and the base b to ...

PartitionMap (Developer Package Symbol)

PartitionMap[f, list, n] applies f to list after partitioning into nonoverlapping sublists of length n. PartitionMap[f, list, n, d] applies f to sublists obtained by ...

TotalVariation (Multivariate Statistics Package Symbol)

TotalVariation[matrix] gives the total variation for matrix.