$DistributedContexts is the default value of the DistributedContexts option of functions such as ParallelTable and ParallelMap.

$LibraryPath gives the default list of directories to search in attempting to find a library.

$MinMachineNumber is the smallest positive machine-precision number that can be used on a particular computer system.

When you use //N to get a numerical result, Mathematica does what a standard calculator would do: it gives you a result to a fixed number of significant figures. You can also ...

The systems of equations that govern certain phenomena (in electrical circuits, chemical kinetics, etc.) contain a combination of differential equations and algebraic ...

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 ...

Mathematica supports an extremely wide range of mathematical notation, although often it does not assign a predefined meaning to it. Thus, for example, you can enter an ...

There are many Mathematica packages that implement symbolic mathematical operations. Here are a few examples drawn from the standard set of packages distributed with ...

Relational operators. This tests whether 10 is less than 7. The result is False. Not all of these numbers are unequal, so this gives False.

LoadJavaClass -- load and set up a Java class for use from Mathematica, JavaClass -- expression that represents a Java class, JavaNew -- create a Java object of a specified ...