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 count of how many protons an atom has in its nucleus (and therefor also the count of how many electrons the neutral atom possesses). The atomic number â¦ is unique for each element and positions the element in the periodic table.