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October 26th, 2007

MATLAB Basics: Linearly spaced vectors

When I look at code written by new users, sometimes, I will see code like this:

a = [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15];

There is an easier way:

a = 1:13;

This three minute video shows how to use commands like linspace and the colon operator to make vectors like:
[1 2 3 4 5] or [-1 -0.5 0 0.5 1].

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By Doug Hull

07:50 UTC | Posted in MATLAB Basics, Video | Permalink |

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One Response to “MATLAB Basics: Linearly spaced vectors”

  1. Muddasser Alam replied on June 28th, 2008 at 10:43 UTC :

    Excellent, thanks a lot!

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