TraceBackward is an option for Trace and related functions which specifies whether to include preceding expressions on the evaluation chain that contains the pattern form ...
TraceForward is an option for Trace and related functions which specifies whether to include later expressions on the evaluation chain that contains the pattern form sought.
Testing for numeric quantities. Pi is a symbol, so Pi+3 is not explicitly a number. It does however have a numerical value.
SQLSelect[conn, table] extracts data from a table in an SQL connection. SQLSelect[conn, table, cols] extracts data from particular columns.SQLSelect[conn, table, cols, cond] ...
NonlinearModelFit[{y_1, y_2, ...}, form, {\[Beta]_1, ...}, x] constructs a nonlinear model with structure form that fits the y_i for successive x values 1, 2, ... using the ...
VariationalBound[f, u[x ], {x, x_min, x_max}, u_t, {a}, {b}, ...] finds values of the parameters a, b, ... of a trial function u_t that extremize the functional ...
"Calling .NET from Mathematica" describes using .NET/Link to allow you to call from Mathematica into .NET, thereby extending the Mathematica environment to include the ...
CellularAutomaton[rule, init, t] generates a list representing the evolution of the cellular automaton with the specified rule from initial condition init for t steps. ...
int MLCheckFunction (MLINK link, char *name, long *n) checks that a function whose head is a symbol with the specified name is on link, and stores the number of the arguments ...
void MLReleaseByteString (MLINK link, const unsigned char *s, int n) disowns memory allocated by MLGetByteString() to store the array of character codes s.