Lighter (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Lighter[color] represents a lighter version of the specified color. Lighter[color, f] represents a version of the specified color lightened by a fraction f. Lighter[image, ...

Degree (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Degree gives the number of radians in one degree. It has a numerical value of \[Pi]/180.

Parallel Computation (Compiled Function Tools Tutorial)

The Mathematica compiler can run computations in parallel. It does this by threading a compiled function over lists of data in parallel. A first step is to create a compiled ...

Newton's Method (Mathematica Tutorial)

One significant advantage Mathematica provides is that it can symbolically compute derivatives. This means that when you specify Method->"Newton" and the function is ...

Brake (Function Approximations Package Symbol)

Brake is an option to MiniMaxApproximation and GeneralMiniMaxApproximation that specifies how changes from one iteration to the next are to be restricted.

OrderStarLegend (Function Approximations Package Symbol)

OrderStarLegend is an option to OrderStarPlot that specifies whether to display the legend of symbols used to represent zeros, poles and interpolation points.

EconomizedRationalApproximation (Function Approximations Package Symbol)

EconomizedRationalApproximation[expr, {x, {x_0, x_1}, m, n}] gives the economized rational approximation to expr that is good over the interval x_0 to x_1, with numerator ...

RationalInterpolation (Function Approximations Package Symbol)

RationalInterpolation[expr, {x, m, n}, {x_1, x_2, ..., x n + m + 1}] gives the rational interpolant to expr with numerator order m and denominator order n, where x_1, x_2, ...

NextPrime (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

NextPrime[n] gives the next prime above n.NextPrime[n, k] gives the k\[Null]^th prime above n.

CentralMoment (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

CentralMoment[list, r] gives the r\[Null]^th central moment of the elements in list with respect to their mean.CentralMoment[dist, r] gives the r\[Null]^th central moment of ...