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 total number of electrons in an atom is always the same as the number of protons in the nucleus. This means atoms have no overall electrical charge. The number of protons in an atom is called its atomic number atomic number: The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom.