After reading last week's post on calculating with empty arrays, one of my colleagues mentioned some other behaviors with empty arrays that have tripped him up in the past.... read more >>

MATLAB has had empty arrays since before I started using the program. When I started, the only size empty array was 0x0. When version 5 was released, empty arrays came along for the... read more >>

A customer recently asked me this question at the MATLAB Virtual Conference. Contents ... read more >>

From time to time, I get asked or see queries about how to concatenate two struct arrays to merge the fields. There's even a section in the documentation covering this topic. I thought... read more >>

Discrete data arise in many applications and the data may be numeric, or non-numeric, often referred to as categorical. Not all data are strictly numeric, and other... read more >>

We're having a MATLAB conference on October 14, in the virtual world. There'll be presentations, forums, chats, live discussion, etc. Please check out the event and join in the fun! ... read more >>

Note. NOTE: matlabpool was removed in 2015 and you should replace that with parpool instead. Today I’d like to introduce a guest blogger, Sarah Wait... read more >>

MATLAB R2009b was recently released. My favorite new language feature is the introduction of the ~ notation to denote missing inputs in function declarations, and missing outputs in... read more >>

There are frequent questions on the MATLAB newsgroup about rounding results to a certain number of decimal places. MATLAB itself doesn't provide this functionality explicitly, ... read more >>

I was on a recent email thread at the office regarding realmax, eps, and overflow. Contents ... read more >>