There is a new datatype we are playing around with that we hope to make available in an upcoming release and we would like your input beforehand.... read more >>

Perhaps you've read about Chebfun before here or on Cleve''s blog. Chebfun allows you to do numerical computing with functions and not simply numbers. If not, you might want to investigate. If so, you may be very interested in new capabilities available. ... read more >>

Answer: When the sum of all divisors of a positive integer, except the number itself, equals the number. Here's a reference with more information from Wikipedia.... read more >>

I have had occasion to visit MathWorks website recently and discovered a couple of interesting pages.... read more >>

I'd like to introduce this week's guest blogger Sam Mirsky. Sam is an Application Engineer here at MathWorks who focuses on real-time testing applications using Simulink. ... read more >>

Steve recently mentioned a video showing how the quiksort algorithm works, including an explanation from Bobby regarding the need for the final seconds to be sure that NaN values are... read more >>

If you've been following the comments from my recent post on chaotic maps, you know that there were several entries to the challenge of coming up with an interesting visualization. ... read more >>

Chaos theory has found uses across a broad set of scientific fields to explain some complicated observed behavior. In geophysics, my background, it can help explain the... read more >>

Today I’d like to introduce my guest bloggers Sarah Wait Zaranek and Jiro Doke. Sarah previously has written about speeding up code from a customer to get acceptable performance... read more >>

I used to both love and dread the thought of autumn - seeing friends after the summer, starting new classes, homework (ugh!). But the distressing part lessened over the years,... read more >>