Arbitrary-Precision Calculations (Mathematica Tutorial)

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 ...

Pseudorandom Numbers (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica has three functions for generating pseudorandom numbers that are distributed uniformly over a range of values. Pseudorandom number generation. Generating tables ...

DatabaseLink Data Access and ... (DatabaseLink Guide)

DatabaseLink provides functions for working with data stored in tables in SQL databases. Operations such as searching, inserting, and deleting are supported. They also ...

Plot Legends Package (Plot Legends Package Guide)

Use Palettes (Mathematica How To)

Palettes give you immediate access to many features built into Mathematica, from creating syntactically complete expressions and inserting special characters, to building up ...

ExtentElementFunction (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ExtentElementFunction is an option to DiscretePlot and DiscretePlot3D that gives a function to use to generate the primitives for rendering each extent element.

Linear Second-Order Equations with ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

The simplest type of linear second-order ODE is one with constant coefficients. This linear second-order ODE has constant coefficients. Notice that the general solution is a ...

Introduction to Unconstrained ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica has a collection of commands that do unconstrained optimization (FindMinimum and FindMaximum) and solve nonlinear equations (FindRoot) and nonlinear fitting ...

String-Oriented Output Formats (Mathematica Tutorial)

Text strings. The quotes are not included in standard Mathematica output form. In input form, the quotes are included.

Standard Atmosphere Package (Standard Atmosphere Package Guide)