Converting to and from character codes. Mathematica assigns every character that can appear in a string a unique character code. This code is used internally as a way to ...

Plain text file. Universal format for storage and exchange of textual information. Represents text as a sequence of characters and line separators. Stores characters as ...

MathematicaScript is an interpreter for standalone executable Mathematica scripts.

FontProperties -> {opt_1 -> val_1, opt_2 -> val_2} specifies font properties.

StyleDefinitions is an option for notebooks that gives definitions for the styles that can be used in a notebook.

Descriptive statistics refers to properties of distributions, such as location, dispersion, and shape. The functions described here compute descriptive statistics of lists of ...

Testing for numeric quantities. Pi is a symbol, so Pi+3 is not explicitly a number. It does however have a numerical value.

Functions for rearranging lists. This sorts the elements of a list into a standard order. In simple cases like this, the order is alphabetical or numerical. This sorts the ...

Mathematica can routinely import and export hundreds of megabytes in all standard basic formats—in addition to supporting hundreds of more structured formats.

Mathematica has built-in access to large volumes of carefully curated and continually updated geographic data, including both socioeconomic and related data, as well as ...