Subscripts, Bars, and Other Modifiers (Mathematica Tutorial)

Here is a typical palette of modifiers. Mathematica allows you to use any expression as a subscript. Unless you specifically tell it otherwise, Mathematica will interpret a ...

AccountingForm (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

AccountingForm[expr] prints with all numbers in expr given in standard accounting notation. AccountingForm[expr, n] prints with numbers given to n-digit precision.

Conjugate (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Conjugate[z] or z\[Conjugate] gives the complex conjugate of the complex number z.

Erfc (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Erfc[z] gives the complementary error function erfc(z).

Erf (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Erf[z] gives the error function erf(z). Erf[z_0, z_1] gives the generalized error function erf(z_1) - erf(z_0).

BetaDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

BetaDistribution[\[Alpha], \[Beta]] represents a continuous beta distribution with shape parameters \[Alpha] and \[Beta].

LineSpacing (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

LineSpacing is an option for Style and Cell that specifies the spacing between successive lines of text.

Symbolic Computation (Mathematica Tutorial)

One of the important features of Mathematica is that it can do symbolic, as well as numerical calculations. This means that it can handle algebraic formulas as well as ...

Det (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Det[m] gives the determinant of the square matrix m.

Floor (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Floor[x] gives the greatest integer less than or equal to x. Floor[x, a] gives the greatest multiple of a less than or equal to x.