Four underlying types of numbers are built into Mathematica. Intrinsic types of numbers in Mathematica. Rational numbers always consist of a ratio of two integers, reduced to ...

DatabaseLink provides two styles of commands for working with data: one for those who are familiar with Mathematica and the other for those who are familiar with SQL. ...

DatabaseLink allows other Mathematica applications to hold resource information for database connections in DatabaseResources directories. There are a number of possible ...

$LibraryError returns the system-dependent error message from loading a library, or None if there was no error.

LoadCOMTypeLibrary[library] creates a so-called "interop" assembly from the named type library and loads that assembly.

LoadNETAssembly[assembly] loads the specified assembly into the .NET runtime and returns a NETAssembly expression that can be used to identify the assembly. ...

This section is designed to discuss how to make compiled functions run efficiently. It will cover features that make them run faster, as well as problems that can make them ...

In data analysis, it is often necessary to clean a dataset before analyzing it. Data points with missing entries or that contain invalid values must be removed or replaced by ...

Animate[expr, {u, u_min, u_max}] generates an animation of expr in which u varies continuously from u_min to u_max. Animate[expr, {u, u_min, u_max, du}] takes u to vary in ...

ArgMax[f, x] gives a position x_max at which f is maximized.ArgMax[f, {x, y, ...}] gives a position {x_max, y_max, ...} at which f is maximized.ArgMax[{f, cons}, {x, y, ...}] ...