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Introducing mathematical operators

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Introducing mathematical operators

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Mathematica is an extremely powerful environment, but when you're just getting started, it helps to know what math you can do and how to do it. In this movie, I will introduce mathematical operators that you can use in Mathematica and then show how to use them in the program. The first couple that I'll discuss are probably familiar. You have the plus sign (+) for addition, minus (-) for subtraction or negation. So that would change 1 to -1. You also have the asterisk (*) for multiplication and the forward slash (/) for division. If you need to raise a number to an exponent, then you have the caret (^). In Mathematica you do modular division using the Mod function. Modular division finds the remainder of a division operation, and rather than try to describe it without numbers, I will wait to demonstrate until I get into Mathematica itself. The complement of modular division is the Quotient function, and this returns the integer component of division. So, modular division gives you the…

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