Accuracy (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Accuracy[x] gives the effective number of digits to the right of the decimal point in the number x.

Equations (Mathematica Tutorial)

"Defining Variables" discussed assignments such as x=y which set x equal to y. Here we discuss equations, which test equality. The equation x==y tests whether x is equal to ...

$MachinePrecision (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

$MachinePrecision gives the number of decimal digits of precision used for machine-precision numbers.

Entering Two-Dimensional Input (Mathematica Tutorial)

When Mathematica reads the text x^y, it interprets it as x raised to the power y. In a notebook, you can also give the two-dimensional input x^y directly. Mathematica again ...

MaxStepFraction (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

MaxStepFraction is an option to functions like NDSolve that specifies the maximum fraction of the total range to cover in a single step.

DiscreteWaveletData (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

DiscreteWaveletData[{wind_1 -> coef_1, ...}, wave, wtrans] yields a discrete wavelet data object with wavelet coefficients coef_i corresponding to wavelet index wind_i, ...

Some Notes on Internal Implementation (Mathematica Tutorial)

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

VarianceEstimatorFunction (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

VarianceEstimatorFunction is an option for LinearModelFit and NonlinearModelFit which specifies the variance estimator to use.

QuantilePlot (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

QuantilePlot[list] generates a plot of quantiles of list against the quantiles of a normal distribution.QuantilePlot[dist] generates a plot of quantiles of the distribution ...

CoshIntegral (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

CoshIntegral[z] gives the hyperbolic cosine integral Chi(z).