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.
General Chemistry/Numbers Used to Describe Atoms - Numbers. 1  The Atomic number is the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom. This number determines the element type of the atom. 2  The atomic number is sometimes denoted Z. Continuing with the example of neon, Z = 10 {\displaystyle Z=10} .