ManhattanDistance (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ManhattanDistance[u, v] gives the Manhattan or "city block" distance between vectors u and v.

SplineWeights (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

SplineWeights is an option for B-spline functions and graphics primitives that specifies weights of control points.

Tr (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Tr[list] finds the trace of the matrix or tensor list. Tr[list, f] finds a generalized trace, combining terms with f instead of Plus. Tr[list, f, n] goes down to level n in ...

UnitBox (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

UnitBox[x] represents the unit box function, equal to 1 for |x| <= 1/2 and 0 otherwise.UnitBox[x_1, x_2, ...] represents the multidimensional unit box function, equal to 1 if ...

Structural Operations (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica contains some powerful primitives for making structural changes to expressions. You can use these primitives both to implement mathematical properties such as ...

Updating Data with Raw SQL (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

The raw SQL command UPDATE updates data in a database. An alternative is to use the Mathematica command SQLUpdate, described in "Updating Data". If you find that the examples ...

Random Number Generation (Mathematica Tutorial)

The ability to generate pseudorandom numbers is important for simulating events, estimating probabilities and other quantities, making randomized assignments or selections, ...

RootReduce (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

RootReduce[expr] attempts to reduce expr to a single Root object.

CumulantGeneratingFunction (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

CumulantGeneratingFunction[dist, t] gives the cumulant generating function for the symbolic distribution dist as a function of the variable t. ...

FourierTransform (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FourierTransform[expr, t, \[Omega]] gives the symbolic Fourier transform of expr. FourierTransform[expr, {t_1, t_2, ...}, {\[Omega]_1, \[Omega]_2, ...}] gives the ...