Distance and Similarity Measures (Mathematica Guide)

Different measures of distance or similarity are convenient for different types of analysis. Mathematica provides built-in functions for many standard distance measures, as ...

AbsoluteTiming (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

AbsoluteTiming[expr] evaluates expr, returning a list of the absolute number of seconds in real time that have elapsed, together with the result obtained.

ClearAttributes (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ClearAttributes[s, attr] removes attr from the list of attributes of the symbol s.

DMSList (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

DMSList[\[Theta]] converts an angle \[Theta] given in decimal degrees to a DMS list {degree, minute, second}.DMSList["dms"] converts a DMS string to a DMS list {degree, ...

EdgeWeight (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

EdgeWeight is an option and property for Graph and related functions that specifies an edge weight.

EnterTextPacket (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

EnterTextPacket[string] is a MathLink packet that requests the parsing and evaluation of string as an expression.

EvaluatePacket (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

EvaluatePacket[expr] is a MathLink packet requesting evaluation of expr.

PrincipalValue (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

PrincipalValue is an option for Integrate that specifies whether the Cauchy principal value should be found for a definite integral.

Subtract (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

x - y is equivalent to x + (-1*y).

References (Mathematica Tutorial)

[AN96] Adams, L. and J. L. Nazareth. (Eds.) Linear and Nonlinear Conjugate Gradient-Related Methods. SIAM, 1996. [Br02] Brent, R. P. Algorithms for Minimization without ...