Two-Way Communication with External ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

When you install a MathLink-compatible external program using Install, the program is set up to behave somewhat like a simplified Mathematica kernel. Every time you call a ...

Using a Text-Based Interface (Mathematica Tutorial)

The standard front end interface, as discussed in "Using a Notebook Interface", is appropriate for most users' purposes. In some cases, however, you may not need to use the ...

FactorInteger (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FactorInteger[n] gives a list of the prime factors of the integer n, together with their exponents. FactorInteger[n, k] does partial factorization, pulling out at most k ...

ImageCompose (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ImageCompose[image, overlay] gives the result of overlaying overlay onto image. ImageCompose[image, {overlay, \[Alpha]}] gives the result of alpha blending overlay into image ...

StreamScale (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

StreamScale is an option to StreamPlot, ListStreamPlot, and related functions that determines the length and arrowhead size of streamlines that are drawn.

WalleniusHypergeometricDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

WalleniusHypergeometricDistribution[n, n_succ, n_tot, w] represents a Wallenius noncentral hypergeometric distribution.

Multivariate Statistics Package (Multivariate Statistics Package Tutorial)

This package contains descriptive statistics for multivariate data and distributions derived from the multivariate normal distribution. Distributions are represented in the ...

Polyhedron Operations Package (Polyhedron Operations Package Tutorial)

A Platonic solid is a convex polyhedron whose faces and vertices are all of the same type. There are five such solids. There are also a few nonconvex polyhedra known that ...

Messages (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica has a general mechanism for handling messages generated during computations. Many built-in Mathematica functions use this mechanism to produce error and warning ...

Manipulating Notebooks from the Kernel (Mathematica Tutorial)

If you want to do simple operations on Mathematica notebooks, then you will usually find it convenient just to use the interactive capabilities of the standard Mathematica ...