Concurrency: Managing Parallel Processes (Parallel Package Tutorial)

A process is simply a Mathematica expression being evaluated. A processor is a parallel kernel that performs such evaluations. The command ParallelEvaluate discussed in the ...

Transforming XML (XML Package Tutorial)

Mathematica is uniquely suited for processing symbolic expressions because of its powerful pattern-matching abilities and large collection of built-in structural manipulation ...

J/Link User Guide (JLink Overview)

Introduction to J/Link Calling Java from Mathematica Writing Java Programs That Use Mathematica

Combinatorica (Combinatorica Package Tutorial)

Combinatorica extends Mathematica by over 450 functions in combinatorics and graph theory. It includes functions for constructing graphs and other combinatorial objects, ...

Byte (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

Sequence of bytes. Raw binary format. Equivalent to the UnsignedInteger8 format.

NegativeBinomialDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

NegativeBinomialDistribution[n, p] represents a negative binomial distribution with parameters n and p.

Arbitrary-Precision Numbers (Mathematica Tutorial)

When you do calculations with arbitrary-precision numbers, Mathematica keeps track of precision at all points. In general, Mathematica tries to give you results which have ...

NotElement (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

NotElement[x, dom] or x \[NotElement] dom asserts that x is not an element of the domain dom.NotElement[x_1 | ... | x_n, dom] asserts that none of the x_i are elements of ...

Introduction to Dynamic (Mathematica Tutorial)

This tutorial describes the principles behind Dynamic, DynamicModule, and related functions, and goes into detail about how they interact with each other and with the rest of ...

Parallel Computation (Compiled Function Tools Tutorial)

The Mathematica compiler can run computations in parallel. It does this by threading a compiled function over lists of data in parallel. A first step is to create a compiled ...