Operations on Strings (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica provides a variety of functions for manipulating strings. Most of these functions are based on viewing strings as a sequence of characters, and many of the ...

SHP (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

ESRI shape file format. Common GIS file format. Used for archiving and exchanging cartographic and geospatial information. Stores the geometry and data of map features. SHP ...

Permutations (Mathematica Tutorial)

Permutations are basic elements in algebra. They have a natural non-commutative product (as matrices do as well), and hence can encode highly nontrivial structures in a ...

Polytopes Package (Polytopes Package Guide)

CUR (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

Microsoft Windows cursor. Raster image file format. Native cursor format on Windows. CUR is an acronym derived from cursor. Binary format. Can store multiple cursors at ...

BinaryReadList (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

BinaryReadList["file"] reads all remaining bytes from a file, and returns them as a list of integers from 0 to 255. BinaryReadList["file", type] reads objects of the ...

Entropy (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Entropy[list] gives the base E information entropy of the values in list.Entropy[k, list] gives the base k information entropy.

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 ...

Defining Derivatives (Mathematica Tutorial)

You can define the derivative in Mathematica of a function f of one argument simply by an assignment like f'[x_]=fp[x]. This defines the derivative of f(x) to be fp(x). In ...

Importing Graphics and Sounds (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica allows you not only to export graphics and sounds, but also to import them. With Import you can read graphics and sounds in a wide variety of formats, and bring ...