Matlab

Matrices

Basics

See Introduction to Matlab

Special matrices/vectors

Name (matrix type)	Matlab syntax	Result
Ones	>> ones(3,2);	$ \left[ \begin{array}{cc} 1 & 1 \\ 1 & 1 \\ 1 & 1 \end{array} \right] $
Zeros	>> zeros(3,1);	$ \left[ \begin{array}{cc} 0 \\ 0 \\ 0 \end{array} \right] $
Eye (identity)	>> eye(3);	$ \left[ \begin{array}{ccc} 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 \end{array} \right] $
Rand (random numbers)	>> rand(3,2) |<math> \left[ \begin{array}{ccc} 0.21955 & 0.27560\\ 0.42385 & 0.62212\\ 0.53343 & 0.69182 \end{array} \right] </math> |- |Meshgrid |<syntaxhighlight lang="matlab"> >> [x,y] = meshgrid(1:4,1:4)	$ x = \left[ \begin{array}{cccc} 1& 2& 3& 4\\ 1& 2& 3& 4\\ 1& 2& 3& 4\\ 1& 2& 3& 4 \end{array} \right] $ $ y = \left[ \begin{array}{cccc} 1& 1& 1& 1\\ 2& 2& 2& 2\\ 3& 3& 3& 3\\ 4& 4& 4& 4 \end{array} \right] $

Matrix/vector operators

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See also

• Octave

• Introduction to Matlab (lecture)