Loren on the Art of MATLAB

Archive for the ‘Common Errors’ Category

• Understanding Array Preallocation
  November 29th, 2012
  
• What’s “if” “all” about?
  June 15th, 2012
  
• Why is Answer to 3 < A < 7 Unexpected?
  May 14th, 2012
  
• Another Possible Surprise – Ignored NaN Values
  September 23rd, 2011
  
• Wash, Rinse, Repeat; Break, Return, Continue
  August 4th, 2011
  
• size Does Matter Sometimes
  April 11th, 2011
  
• Scalar Roulette
  July 9th, 2010
  
• Doug’s “Top 10 MATLAB code practices that make me cry”
  March 11th, 2010
  
• A Case for Divergence between MATLAB and C
  December 29th, 2009
  
• Comparing Single-threaded vs. Multithreaded Floating Point Calculations
  December 4th, 2009
  
• Precision and realmax
  August 20th, 2009
  
• Switching Things Up
  April 28th, 2009
  
• When MATLAB Refreshes Directories
  December 11th, 2008
  
• Understanding Object Cleanup
  July 29th, 2008
  
• HELP – I Got the Wrong Answer for My Optimization!
  July 8th, 2008
  
• Collinearity
  June 6th, 2008
  
• Another Lesson in Floating Point
  May 20th, 2008
  
• Clearing the Air
  April 8th, 2008
  
• Nested Functions and Variable Scope
  January 16th, 2008
  
• Should M-Lint Try to Make a Recommendation?
  January 4th, 2008
  
• Defensive GUI Programming
  November 7th, 2007
  
• for Versus while
  August 29th, 2007
  
• Make Code N-D Safe
  July 6th, 2007
  
• sum Things to Consider
  June 29th, 2007
  
• Indexing Terminology
  June 21st, 2007
  
• Indexed Assignment
  June 5th, 2007
  
• Purpose of inv
  May 16th, 2007
  
• A Little Bit on Message Handling
  April 30th, 2007
  
• Machine-Independent Filenames
  April 13th, 2007
  
• More MATLAB Gotchas
  March 7th, 2007
  
• Beginner Woes
  February 21st, 2007
  
• Calendars and Leap Years
  January 26th, 2007
  
• Displaying Numbers in MATLAB
  December 27th, 2006
  
• Bottom Line on Logical
  November 2nd, 2006
  
• Controlling Warning Messages and State
  October 18th, 2006
  
• Evolution of the Function isfield
  September 27th, 2006
  
• A Glimpse into Floating-Point Accuracy
  August 23rd, 2006
  
• How for Works
  July 19th, 2006
  
• When is a Numeric Result Not a Number?
  July 5th, 2006
  
• Command and Function Syntaxes in MATLAB
  May 3rd, 2006
  
• Understanding Persistence
  March 29th, 2006