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The Mathematica function Area knows about Sphere. For example the following output.

Area[Sphere[]]

4 Pi

Does this mean each function knows about the other? Is there a way to find out which functions knows about which? For example is there a way to find out what all other functions Area is aware of?

corey979
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    if you look at help for Area it says it gives area for 2D region. And under scope, you will see list of regions it knows about. Basically any ref/Region it should give its area. – Nasser Oct 04 '21 at 07:39

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Those functions are in the System` path, which is automatically loaded.

See https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$ContextPath.html

and ?System`* to see the included functions.

There is a post here where jVincent excludes the System context for testing.

Chris Degnen
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  • I am not looking for where Mathematica loads the function's from. I am looking for information on how one function knows about the other. Is there a way to find what all the other inputs the Area function would support – Talespin_Kit Oct 04 '21 at 06:55