OpenAppend (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

OpenAppend["file"] opens a file to append output to it, and returns an OutputStream object.

PrimePi (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

PrimePi[x] gives the number of primes \[Pi] (x) less than or equal to x.

SkeletonTransform (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

SkeletonTransform[image] gives the skeleton transform of image, in which the value of each skeleton pixel is its distance to the nearest background ...

TextureCoordinateFunction (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

TextureCoordinateFunction is an option to Plot3D and similar functions that specifies a function that computes texture coordinates.

ToCharacterCode (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ToCharacterCode["string"] gives a list of the integer codes corresponding to the characters in a string. ToCharacterCode["string", " encoding"] gives integer codes according ...

WaveletScale (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

WaveletScale is an option for ContinuousWaveletTransform and related constructs used to specify the smallest resolvable scale.

WindowSize (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

WindowSize is a notebook option that specifies the size of window that should be used to display a notebook on the screen.

$MinMachineNumber (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

$MinMachineNumber is the smallest positive machine-precision number that can be used on a particular computer system.

Defining Numerical Values (Mathematica Tutorial)

If you make a definition such as f[x_]:=value, Mathematica will use the value you give for any f function it encounters. In some cases, however, you may want to define a ...

Files and Streams (Mathematica Tutorial)

Conventions for file names. Most files used by Mathematica are completely system independent. .mx and .exe files are however system dependent. For these files, there is a ...