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Re: Re: Replace and ReplaceAll -- simple application

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  • Subject: [mg106030] Re: [mg105997] Re: Replace and ReplaceAll -- simple application
  • From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
  • Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:12:42 -0500 (EST)
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OK... atomic object, then.

I doubt whether any such list is complete in the documentation.

Bobby

On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:11:37 -0600, AES <siegman at stanford.edu> wrote:

> In article <hhc79g$2np$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
>  DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> -1. is a Real, hence an Atom, so it has no subordinate parts.
>>
>> Bobby
>>
>
> Thanks -- except, after digging out and reading the Basic Objects
> tutorial (which was useful), I think you mean "hence an atomic object"?
>
> Is "Atom" a defined term in Mathematica?  The tutorial doesn't seem to
> use it.
>
> [And as an aside, is the shaded table of atomic objects in this tutorial
> supposed to be a *complete* list of *all* the atomic objects in
> Mathematica?  I'm never clear whether these shaded lists are supposed to
> contain all, or just some, of the objects they illustrate.].
>


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