Activating Mathematica (Mathematica Tutorial)

Once the installation of Mathematica 8 is complete, you will be presented with the Wolfram Product Activation dialog. There are three methods to activate Mathematica: online ...

Contexts and Packages (Mathematica Tutorial)

A typical package written in Mathematica introduces several new symbols intended for use outside the package. These symbols may correspond for example to new functions or new ...

Low-Level Input and Output Rules (Mathematica Tutorial)

Low-level functions for converting between expressions and boxes. MakeBoxes generates boxes without evaluating its input. MakeExpression interprets boxes but uses ...

Types of Numbers (Mathematica Tutorial)

Four underlying types of numbers are built into Mathematica. Intrinsic types of numbers in Mathematica. Rational numbers always consist of a ratio of two integers, reduced to ...

QuickTime (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

Registered MIME type: video/quicktime Apple QuickTime file format. Multimedia container format. Commonly used for archiving and exchanging video content. Stores audio and ...

ExponentialGeneratingFunction (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ExponentialGeneratingFunction[expr, n, x] gives the exponential generating function in x for the sequence whose n\[Null]^th term is given by the expression ...

Slider (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Slider[x] represents a slider with setting x in the range 0 to 1. Slider[Dynamic[x]] takes the setting to be the dynamically updated current value of x, with the value of x ...

Formatted Output (Mathematica Tutorial)

Ever since Version 3 of Mathematica, there has been rich support for arbitrary mathematical typesetting and layout. Underlying all that power was a so-called box language, ...

SignTest (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

SignTest[data] tests whether the median of data is zero. SignTest[{data_1, data_2}] tests whether the median of data_1\[Dash] data_2 is zero.SignTest[dspec, \[Mu] 0] tests a ...

MathLink Development in C (Linux) (Mathematica Tutorial)

This document describes how to compile and run MathLink programs written in the C language on Linux systems. ("MathLink and External Program Communication" describes how to ...