As discussed in "Exact and Approximate Results", Mathematica can handle approximate real numbers with any number of digits. In general, the precision of an approximate real ...

Mathematica provides a uniquely powerful interactive environment for building up arbitrarily complex computations, under convenient interactive or programmatic control.

Mathematica makes it easy to "bulletproof" packages, and prevent features of their environment from affecting their internal operation.

Mathematica's highly optimized architecture makes it easy to create programs that are both elegant and efficient. Its symbolic character lets you immediately run and test ...

Finding the date and time. This gives the current date and time. The Mathematica DateList function returns whatever your computer system gives as the current date and time. ...

Basic plotting functions. This plots a graph of sin(x) as a function of x from 0 to 2π. You can plot functions that have singularities. Mathematica will try to choose ...

ParallelSubmit[expr] submits expr for evaluation on the next available parallel kernel and returns an EvaluationObject expression representing the submitted ...

Mathematica's symbolic timing framework allows timing information not only to be analyzed but also to be used in the structure of algorithms. Mathematica provides functions ...

When Mathematica transforms an expression such as x+x into 2x, it is treating the variable x in a purely symbolic or formal fashion. In such cases, x is a symbol which can ...

WaitNext[{eid_1, eid_2, ...}] waits until the first evaluation represented by any of the eid_i finishes, then returns its result, the corresponding eid_i, and the list of ...