{"id":2059,"date":"2007-10-26T07:50:47","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T12:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2007\/10\/26\/matlab-basics-linearly-spaced-vectors\/"},"modified":"2016-05-11T11:41:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T15:41:30","slug":"matlab-basics-linearly-spaced-vectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2007\/10\/26\/matlab-basics-linearly-spaced-vectors\/","title":{"rendered":"MATLAB Basics: Linearly spaced vectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I look at code written by new users, sometimes, I will see code like this:<\/p>\n<p>a = [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15];<\/p>\n<p>There is an easier way:<\/p>\n<p>a = 1:13;<\/p>\n<p>This three minute video shows how to use commands like linspace and the colon operator to make vectors like:<br \/>\n[1 2 3 4 5] or [-1 -0.5 0 0.5 1].<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/pick\/\/FlashVideos\/FlowPlayer.swf?config=%7Bembedded%3Atrue%2CplayList%3A%5B%7BsuggestedClipsInfoUrl%3A%2740%20see%20also%2Etxt%27%2Curl%3A%2740%20Basics%20Colon%20and%20linspace%2Eflv%27%7D%5D%2CbaseURL%3A%27http%3A%2F%2Fblogs%2Emathworks%2Ecom%2Fimages%2Fpick%2FFlashVideos%2F%27%2CsplashImageFile%3A%2740%20Basics%20Colon%20and%20linspace%2Ejpg%27%2Cloop%3Afalse%2CinitialScale%3A%27fit%27%2CshowFullScreenButton%3Afalse%2CautoBuffering%3Afalse%2CmenuItems%3A%5Bfalse%2Cfalse%2Cfalse%2Cfalse%2Cfalse%2Ctrue%5D%2CautoPlay%3Afalse%7D\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>Other videos have been gathered here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/category\/video\/\">https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/category\/video\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other MATLAB Basics posts have been gathered here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/category\/matlab-basics\/\">https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/category\/matlab-basics\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I look at code written by new users, sometimes, I will see code like this:<br \/>\na = [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15];<br \/>\nThere is an easier way:<br \/>\na = 1:13;<br \/>\nThis three minute video shows how to use&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2007\/10\/26\/matlab-basics-linearly-spaced-vectors\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7179,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions\/7179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}