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.
What do the numbers on the periodic table mean? On the periodic table, there are two numbers for every element: the atomic number and the atomic weight. The numbers at the top of the square represents the number of proton â¦ s present in the atom's nucleus of that element.