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What is Mathematica?


Mathematica is a software package that is developed by Wolfram to save the user time in solving naturally technical problems.

The following table shows a list of the basic characteristics of Mathematica:

  • Simple
  • Fairly Expensive
  • Widely Used
  • Widely Available
  • Suitable for Web Publishing
  • Very suitable for Parallel programming
  • Not suitable for Large Data Sets

The following examples will show some of the capabilities of Mathematica.

A Mathematica program can be an ASCII with nb extension file dot nb file

Mathematica is split into a front end and a kernel. The following table shows the reasons for doing so:

Item Number

Reason

1

You may run the front end on computer A and the kernel on B

2

You may run one front end but multiple kernels

3

Easy to port programs that written for a kernel

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