NumericFunction

NumericFunction

is an attribute for a symbol f to denote that the result of f(arg1, arg2, ...) can be treated as a numeric value provided that each argN is a numeric value.

Examples

The NumericFunction is set for the LogisticSigmoid function:

>> Attributes(LogisticSigmoid)
{Listable,NumericFunction,Protected}

>> LogisticSigmoid(0.5)
0.6224593312018546

>> LogisticSigmoid({-2/10, 1/10, 3/10}) // N
{0.450166,0.524979,0.574443}