p : v is a pattern object that represents an expression of the form p, which, if omitted, should be replaced by v.

This gives a result for the integral of x^n that is valid for almost all values of n. For the special case of x^-1, however, the correct result is different. The overall goal ...

The standard set of messages for built-in Mathematica functions are written in American English. In some versions of Mathematica, messages are also available in other ...

The following techniques are useful for debugging problems with client connections to the license server. MathLM will not start if it cannot find the password file. In that ...

Catch[expr] returns the argument of the first Throw generated in the evaluation of expr. Catch[expr, form] returns value from the first Throw[value, tag] for which form ...

Typical command-line options for Mathematica executables. If the Mathematica front end is called with a notebook file as a command-line argument, then this notebook will be ...

CPreprocessorIf[cond] is a symbolic representation of a preprocessor if conditional.CPreprocessorIf[cond, true, false] represents the true and false cases.

Mathematica does operations like numerical integration very differently from the way it does their symbolic counterparts. When you do a symbolic integral, Mathematica takes ...

If the front end activation dialog box appears when you launch Mathematica, either Mathematica could not locate the mathpass file or there was no valid password in the ...

TwoColoring[g] finds a two-coloring of graph g if g is bipartite. It returns a list of the labels 1 and 2 corresponding to the vertices.