Lists are widely used in Mathematica, and there are many ways to construct them. Some explicit ways to construct lists. This gives a table of the first five powers of 2.

Pure functions. When you use functional operations such as Nest and Map, you always have to specify a function to apply. In all the examples above, we have used the "name" of ...

DiscreteRatio[f, i] gives the discrete ratio f(i + 1)/f(i).DiscreteRatio[f, {i, n}] gives the multiple discrete ratio.DiscreteRatio[f, {i, n, h}] gives the multiple discrete ...

CreateObjectFile[source, name] compiles a string of C code and creates an executable file, name.ext.CreateObjectFile[{file 1, ...}, name] compiles a number of C source files ...

ConditionalExpression[expr, cond] is a symbolic construct that represents the expression expr when the condition cond is True.

Mathematica provides a variety of functions for manipulating strings. Most of these functions are based on viewing strings as a sequence of characters, and many of the ...

Vectors and matrices in Mathematica are simply represented by lists and by lists of lists, respectively. The representation of vectors and matrices by lists. This is a 2×2 ...

ShearingMatrix[\[Theta], v, n] gives the matrix corresponding to shearing by \[Theta] radians along the direction of the vector v, and normal to the vector n.

WaitAll[expr] waits for all concurrent evaluations represented by EvaluationObject expressions in expr to finish, then returns the resulting expression obtained.

ContinuedFraction[x, n] generates a list of the first n terms in the continued fraction representation of x. ContinuedFraction[x] generates a list of all terms that can be ...