Long used in its simplest form in mathematics, functional iteration is an elegant way to represent repeated operations. Mathematica's symbolic architecture makes powerful ...

Finding the date and time. This gives the current date and time. The Mathematica DateList function returns whatever your computer system gives as the current date and time. ...

NormFunction is an option for functions such as FindFit and NDSolve which gives a function to be minimized in generating results.

Nested logical and piecewise functions can be expanded out much like nested arithmetic functions. You can do this using LogicalExpand and PiecewiseExpand. Expanding out ...

Arithmetic Numerical Mathematics in Mathematica The Uncertainties of Numerical Mathematics

CharacteristicFunction[dist, t] gives the characteristic function for the symbolic distribution dist as a function of the variable t.CharacteristicFunction[dist, {t_1, t_2, ...

Variables and functions are integral to Mathematica 's symbolic programming language. These "How tos" give step-by-step instructions for common tasks related to variables, ...

Mathematica lets you insert function templates that contain placeholders for the arguments of a function. You can do this directly from the keyboard or with several of ...

 

ComplexityFunction is an option for Simplify and other functions which gives a function to rank the complexity of different forms of an expression.