Re: Re: Re: Replace and ReplaceAll -- simple
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- Subject: [mg106109] Re: [mg106049] Re: [mg105997] Re: Replace and ReplaceAll -- simple
- From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 05:38:28 -0500 (EST)
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Good to know. Bobby On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:16:25 -0600, Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu> wrote: > 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.]. >> > -- DrMajorBob at yahoo.com