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====== Matlab vocabulary ====== You should be familiar with the following Matlab programming constructs and functions. <code> compact scientific notation (e.g. 1.4e-06) complex numbers (e.g. 3 + 4*i) Inf, NaN = assignment - + * / ^ algebraic operations \ solve system of equations Ax=b (x = A\b) commas and semicolons how to write a row vector how to write a col vector how to write a matrix how to write a complex number elementwise operations on vectors, matrices - + .* ./ .^ conditional expressions (boolean algebra) == ~= > < >= <= ~ && (simple AND) || (simple OR) & (componentwise AND for vectors) | (componentwise OR for vectors) zero means false nonzero means true control flow for-end if-elseif-else-end while-end switch continue break pause constructing matrices and vectors square brackets [ ] colon syntax linspace zeros ones eye rand randi randn hugely helpful miscellaneous functions sum mean ceil floor round size input disp fprintf (%c, %s, %d, %f, \n) save load clear class who what which plotting functions plot semilogy semilogx loglog contour hist xlabel ylabel title legend axes hold, hold off, hold on clf grid off, grid on color & marker codes figure subplot user-defined functions function name, filename arguments outputs anonymous functions syntax for using a function as an argument to another function scripts </code>
