Solving Recurrence Equations (Mathematica Tutorial)

If you represent the n^th term in a sequence as a[n], you can use a recurrence equation to specify how it is related to other terms in the sequence. RSolve takes recurrence ...

ArgMin (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ArgMin[f, x] gives a position x_min at which f is minimized.ArgMin[f, {x, y, ...}] gives a position {x_min, y_min, ...} at which f is minimized.ArgMin[{f, cons}, {x, y, ...}] ...

WordCharacter (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

WordCharacter represents a letter or digit character in StringExpression.

GTOPO30 (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

GTOPO30 global topographic data. United States Geological Survey (USGS) standard. Distribution format for a global digital elevation model (DEM) with 30-arc-second grid ...

CDED (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

Canadian digital elevation data. Standard format for the distribution of terrain elevation data for the United States. Canadian Centre for Topographic Information (CTI) ...

USGSDEM (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

USGS ASCII DEM files. Standard format for the distribution of terrain elevation data for the United States. United States Geological Survey (USGS) standard. DEM is an acronym ...

SDTSDEM (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

SDTS GIS format. Geographic information standard used by the U.S. Geological Survey. Used for archiving and exchanging terrain data. SDTS is an acronym for Spatial Data ...

OddQ (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

OddQ[expr] gives True if expr is an odd integer, and False otherwise.

Numerical Functions (Mathematica Guide)

Throughout Mathematica there is support not only for approximate real numbers, but also for exact numbers represented in algebraic or symbolic form. Functions like Floor, ...

ExactNumberQ (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ExactNumberQ[expr] returns True if expr is an exact real or complex number, and returns False otherwise.