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

## Expressions

### Numbers

<SquiggleEditor defaultCode="4.32" />

### Distributions

<SquiggleEditor
  defaultCode={`a = normal(4,2)
b = 30 to 50
c = lognormal({mean:90, stdev: 7})
d = mixture(a,b,c, [0.3, 0.3, .4])
{a:a, b:b, c:c, d:d}`}
/>

### Lists

<SquiggleEditor
  defaultCode={`[beta(1,10), 4, isNormalized(SampleSet.fromDist(1 to 2))]`}
/>

<SquiggleEditor defaultCode={`List.make(5,1)`} />

### Dictionaries

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

### Functions

<SquiggleEditor
  defaultCode={`f(t) = normal(t^2, t^1.2+.01)
f`}
/>

### Anonymous Functions

<SquiggleEditor defaultCode={`{|t| normal(t^2, t^1.2+.01)}`} />

### Comments

<SquiggleEditor defaultCode={`// This is a single-line comment
/*
This is a multiple
-line comment.
*/
`} />

### Pipes

<SquiggleEditor defaultCode={`normal(5,2) |> truncateLeft(3) |> SampleSet.fromDist`} />

## See more

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