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 ...

Syntax of notation declarations. Notation takes both an external representation and an internal representation as arguments. Mathematica translates any input matching the ...

Typical ways to enter characters. All printable ASCII characters can be entered directly. Those that are not alphanumeric are assigned explicit names in Mathematica, allowing ...

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 ...

Mathematica 6.0 fundamentally redefined Mathematica and introduced a major new paradigm for computation. Building on Mathematica's time-tested core symbolic architecture, ...

Characters that are not letters, letter-like forms, or structural elements are treated by Mathematica as operators. Mathematica has built-in rules for interpreting all ...

This package contains functions for measuring the performance of Mathematica on your computer and for producing a comparison report that includes benchmark results for other ...

MIME type: text/mathml, application/mathml+xml MathML mathematical markup language. Used for integrating mathematical formulas in web documents. Rendering of embedded MathML ...

AccountingForm[expr] prints with all numbers in expr given in standard accounting notation. AccountingForm[expr, n] prints with numbers given to n-digit precision.

Apply[f, expr] or f @@ expr replaces the head of expr by f. Apply[f, expr, {1}] or f @@@ expr replaces heads at level 1 of expr by f.Apply[f, expr, levelspec] replaces heads ...