The syntax of the Mathematica language is unique among modern languages in allowing not just ordinary ASCII characters, but also a variety of special characters that greatly ...

ArrayDepth[expr] gives the depth to which expr is a full array, with all the parts at a particular level being lists of the same length, or is a SparseArray object.

FromDMS[{d, m, s}] converts from degrees, minutes, and seconds to decimal degrees. FromDMS["dms"] converts from a DMS string to decimal degrees.FromDMS["latlong"] converts ...

Although Mathematica matches patterns in a purely structural fashion, its notion of structural equivalence is quite sophisticated. In particular, it takes account of ...

Testing and searching for elements of lists. "Getting Pieces of Lists" discusses how to extract pieces of lists based on their positions or indices. Mathematica also has ...

Mathematica uses various syntactic rules to interpret input that you give, and to convert strings and boxes into expressions. The version of these rules that is used for ...

DistributionChart[{data_1, data_2, ...}] makes a distribution chart with a distribution symbol for each data_i.DistributionChart[{..., w_i[data_i, ...], ..., w_j[data_j, ...

TabView[{lbl_1 -> expr_1, lbl_2 -> expr_2, ...}] represents an object in which clicking the tab with label lbl_i displays expr_i. TabView[{lbl_1 -> expr_1, lbl_2 -> expr_2, ...

BoxWhiskerChart[{x_1, x_2, ...}] makes a box-and-whisker chart for the values x_i.BoxWhiskerChart[{x_1, x_2, ...}, bwspec] makes a chart with box-and-whisker symbol ...

BetaRegularized[z, a, b] gives the regularized incomplete beta function I_z (a, b).