Outline of Math 445 lecture 1: Matlab ultra-basics

operators, expressions, 

  + - * / ^  

  ()
  ^
  -    (negation)
  * / 
  + - 
  ;

variables and assignment
  =  equals assignment
  == equals equals

constants
  pi
  i,j
  inf
  NaN


help
who
whos
ellipsis
format

built-in functions
  sin, cos, tan, exp, log, log10, log2,
  asin, acos, atan,  


random number


vectors
  linspace
  colon operator
  element extraction
  elementwise operations
  semicolon
  pointwise operations  


plotting
  plot(x,sin(x))
  plot(x,sin(x),'r')
  plot(x,tan(x))  
  semilogy
  semilogx
  loglog  
  

type
  "double precision"
  "single precision"
  int8, int16, in32, int64
  char
  logical
  complex
  bits and bytes