Sometimes people state that they like using MATLAB because it's easy to express their mathematical thoughts. Sometimes there's a follow-on that they then switch to another language for performance. While early in the history of MATLAB, that was sometimes beneficial, it is not so obvious these days. Let's take the example of implicit expansion (also here).... read more >>

Peter Perkins, in development, wrote this as an explanation for what the development team and documentation needed to understand to make sure time zones were implemented and explained correctly. I stole it (with his permission) to share with you.... read more >>

For those Monty Python fans reading this post, check out the Argument Clinic. Recently both Sean and Jiro, twice! posted about the new arguments capability available for input argument checking. I wanted to show you some more about this great feature! I've also discussed argument checking over the years, including this post.... read more >>

Today I’d like to introduce a guest blogger, David Garrison, who is a MATLAB Product Manager here at MathWorks. Dave will talk about the new feature introduced in R2019b called Live Editor Tasks which allow you to complete steps in your workflow interactively from within the Live Editor.... read more >>

Over a long number of years, people have asked whether it's better to use cellfun or a for-loop to perform certain computations. As with so many things in life, the correct answer here is "it depends". Let me give you a bit more insight so you can make good choices.... read more >>

Even if we crunch numbers a lot, there are plenty of times, for example, when reporting, that we need to mix numbers into text. For a very long time, we've been able to create a character vector, and more recently, a string, with functions like sprintf. Look here for more information on character arrays and strings.... read more >>

I recently attended the ICIAM meeting in Valencia, Spain which meant I got to hang out with my pals Carlos Sanchis and Lucas Garcia :-)! Carlos showed me a problem he was working with Professor Fernando Giménez from UPV regarding an app for estimating $\pi$ using Buffon's method. Here's the problem statement from Wikipedia:... read more >>

Do your kids have to practice solving mathematical word problems? Maybe they need to practice more during school breaks? I've written a function that can turn you in to a machine for torturing your kids with some.... read more >>

I'm sure you've heard of IoT, Internet of Things. And people talk about connected devices, and getting the data from them to use in applications. I want to show you a very simple example to spark some ideas in each of you.... read more >>

As Steve noted in a recent post, several of the functions that operate along specific dimensions have been updated to add some new functionality, for example the function sum. (I also think he missed a great opportunity for a cool blog post title, which is only partly why I am writing about it now :^) ). Please read his post!... read more >>