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Re: Re: Replace and ReplaceAll -- simple application

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  • Subject: [mg106049] Re: [mg105997] Re: Replace and ReplaceAll -- simple application
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:16:25 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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  • Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

If you search for "atom" in the Documentation Center, the first thing 
you'll find is AtomQ.  The term "atom", with a lower-case "a", appears 
in examples there.

But you'll find no entry for "Atom" as a built-in symbol.

AES 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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