CHAPTER 5Functions
Even though Mathematica comes with thousands of predefined functions, it is extremely important to know how to define our own functions. While a simple function might be defined in a single line of code, more complicated functions might take dozens of lines assembled together in a Module. In this chapter we’ll see how to define our own functions. We’ll also learn the basics of elementary programming which can be used to turn any mathematical algorithm into a working Mathematica function.
5.1 Defining Functions
Sometimes we may be using the same function over and over again and it can be handy to give the function a name. For example, suppose we were computing things related to home mortgages and repeatedly found ourselves computing ...
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