The general symbolic string patterns in Mathematica allow you to perform powerful string manipulation efficiently. What follows discusses the details of string patterns, ...

GapPenalty is an option for SequenceAlignment and related functions that gives the additional cost associated with each gap corresponding to a run of insertions or deletions.

Two decades of intense R&D at Wolfram Research have given Mathematica by far the world's broadest and deepest coverage of special functions—and greatly expanded the whole ...

The Mathematica compiler provides an important way both to speed up and also to work with Mathematica computations. It does this by taking assumptions about the computations ...

General issues about the internal implementation of Mathematica are discussed in "The Internals of Mathematica". Given here are brief notes on particular features. These ...

MeanTest is superseded by the Mathematica kernel functions LocationTest, TTest, and ZTest. MeanDifferenceTest is superseded by the Mathematica kernel functions ...

DateListPlot[{{date_1, v_1}, {date_2, v_2}, ...}] plots points with values v i at a sequence of dates.DateListPlot[{v_1, v_2, ...}, datespec] plots points with dates at equal ...

Simplify[expr] performs a sequence of algebraic and other transformations on expr, and returns the simplest form it finds. Simplify[expr, assum] does simplification using ...

WolframAlpha["query"] sends query to Wolfram|Alpha and imports the output.WolframAlpha["query", format] imports the output according to the specified format.

This tutorial covers advanced features of the Manipulate command. It assumes that you have read "Introduction to Manipulate" and thus have a good idea what the command is for ...