SetOptions (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

SetOptions[s, name_1 -> value_1, name_2 -> value_2, ...] sets the specified default options for a symbol s. SetOptions[stream, ...] or SetOptions["name", ...] sets options ...

SubsuperscriptBox (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

x_y^z is the low-level box representation for x_y^z in notebook expressions.

TimeConstrained (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

TimeConstrained[expr, t] evaluates expr, stopping after t seconds. TimeConstrained[expr, t, failexpr] returns failexpr if the time constraint is not met.

TrigToExp (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

TrigToExp[expr] converts trigonometric functions in expr to exponentials.

UpperCaseQ (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

UpperCaseQ[string] yields True if all the characters in the string are uppercase letters, and yields False otherwise.

$CharacterEncoding (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

$CharacterEncoding specifies the default raw character encoding to use for input and output functions.

$MachinePrecision (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

$MachinePrecision gives the number of decimal digits of precision used for machine-precision numbers.

$MinPrecision (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

$MinPrecision gives the minimum number of digits of precision to be allowed in arbitrary-precision numbers.

Functions as Procedures (Mathematica Tutorial)

In many kinds of calculations, you may find yourself typing the same input to Mathematica over and over again. You can save yourself a lot of typing by defining a function ...

Reading and Writing Mathematica Files (Mathematica Tutorial)

You can use files on your computer system to store definitions and results from Mathematica. The most general approach is to store everything as plain text that is ...