In a way, passing an array as argument always loses a dimension. The reason behind is that, for historical reasons, arrays cannot be directly copied, and thus what is really passed is a pointer. This is a common source of errors for novice programmers.
atomic number represents the protons in atom. As a example hydrogen has one proton and atomic number is 1.
The mass number is the count of these particles and so the mass number is very close to the atomic mass. Atomic number. Atomic number refers to the number of protons in nucleus. It is often denoted using the symbol Z. The number of electrons in the neutral atom is equal to the number of protons in the nucleus and therefore equal to the atomic number of the atom.