MATLAB has the concept of Not-a-Number, also known as NaN for quite some time. Following the IEEE 754 Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic, some floating point calculations result in NaN,... read more >>

Starting with release R2007b, there are multiple ways to take advantage of newer hardware in MATLAB. In MATLAB alone, you can benefit from using multithreading,
depending on what kind of... read more >>

Since MATLAB Release R2007a, you've been able to number the arguments for functions that format strings. With this feature,
you can refer to the values that correspond to the different arguments in... read more >>

With Release R2007b, you now have the ability to set (and get) the maximum number of allowed threads. What does this mean for you? Contents ... read more >>

Release R2007b is now available. Here's what's new in MATLAB. I plan to highlight some of these features, and perhaps some from related products, in upcoming posts. In addition, ... read more >>

A reader suggested I discuss the difference in use of MATLAB's for and while constructs. Contents ... read more >>

We can sometimes be motivated to reverse things in Boston. And I occasionally get asked how to reverse the sort direction from MATLAB. So instead of sorting A and then having B follow... read more >>

Recently a colleague was hoping to write some code to iterate over fields in a structure. There are at least three different ways I can think of, some more straight-forward... read more >>

There are a lot of ways to create reusable tools and widgets in lots of programming languages, including MATLAB. Today I
want to illustrate creating a reusable visualization tool that can then be... read more >>

Users sometimes want to monitor the progress of some calculation or simulation. Here's a recent example from the MATLAB newsgroup. Contents ... read more >>