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.
/numÂ·ber/ (numÂ´ber) a symbol, as a figure or word, expressive of a certain value or a specified quantity determined by count. atomic number (Z ) a number expressive of the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.