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 atomic number is the number of protons in an atom. This number is fixed and determines what element that atom is. The atomic mass is the mass of an atom and is roughly equâ¦ivalent to the number of protons plus the average number of neutrons that atoms of that particular element.