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sidebar_position: 1
title: Language Basics
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import { SquiggleEditor } from "../../src/components/SquiggleEditor";

## Expressions

### Distributions

<SquiggleEditor initialSquiggleString={`mixture(1 to 2, 3, [0.3, 0.7])`} />

### Numbers

<SquiggleEditor initialSquiggleString="4.32" />

### Arrays

<SquiggleEditor
  initialSquiggleString={`[beta(1,10), 4, isNormalized(toSampleSet(1 to 2))]`}
/>

### Records

<SquiggleEditor
  initialSquiggleString={`d = {dist: triangular(0, 1, 2), weight: 0.25}
d.dist`}
/>

## Statements

A statement assigns expressions to names. It looks like `<symbol> = <expression>`

<SquiggleEditor
  initialSquiggleString={`value_of_work = 10 to 70
5 + value_of_work / 75`}
/>

### Functions

We can define functions

<SquiggleEditor
  initialSquiggleString={`ozzie_estimate(t) = lognormal(t^(1.1), 0.5)
nuno_estimate(t, m) = mixture(normal(-5, 1), lognormal(m, t / 1.25))
ozzie_estimate(1) * nuno_estimate(1, 1)`}
/>

## See more

- [Distribution creation](./DistributionCreation)
- [Functions reference](./Functions)
- [Gallery](../Discussions/Gallery)