NumericFunction is an attribute that can be assigned to a symbol f to indicate that f[arg_1, arg_2, ...] should be considered a numeric quantity whenever all the arg_i are ...

If the Mathematica client cannot get a license from MathLM, you are given the option of entering a single-machine password. When using a single-machine password, Mathematica ...

BitOr[n_1, n_2, ...] gives the bitwise OR of the integers n_i.

The precise details of the naming of files differ from one computer system to another. Nevertheless, Mathematica provides some fairly general mechanisms that work on all ...

InterpolatingFunction[domain, table] represents an approximate function whose values are found by interpolation.

Bringing together Mathematica's powerful capabilities in numerics, algebraic computation and now also geometric computation, Version 6.0 took the state of the art for ...

Pure functions. When you use functional operations such as Nest and Map, you always have to specify a function to apply. In all the examples above, we have used the "name" of ...

OutputNamePacket[string] is a MathLink packet that contains in string the name assigned to the next output.

When Mathematica reads the text x^y, it interprets it as x raised to the power y. In a notebook, you can also give the two-dimensional input x^y directly. Mathematica again ...

There are a variety of ways to describe probability distributions such as probability density or mass, cumulative versions of density and mass, inverses of the cumulative ...