{"id":216,"date":"2007-10-26T07:50:47","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T12:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2007\/10\/26\/matlab-basics-linearly-spaced-vectors\/"},"modified":"2016-04-04T15:19:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T20:19:47","slug":"matlab-basics-linearly-spaced-vectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2007\/10\/26\/matlab-basics-linearly-spaced-vectors\/","title":{"rendered":"MATLAB Basics: Linearly spaced vectors"},"content":{"rendered":"When I look at code written by new users, sometimes, I will see code like this:\r\n\r\na = [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15];\r\n\r\nThere is an easier way:\r\n\r\na = 1:13;\r\n\r\nThis three minute video shows how to use commands like linspace and the colon operator to make vectors like:\r\n\r\n[1 2 3 4 5] or [-1 -0.5 0 0.5 1].\r\n<div><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"3877438070001\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\nOther videos have been gathered here:\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/category\/video\/\">https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/category\/video\/<\/a>\r\n\r\nOther MATLAB Basics posts have been gathered here:\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/category\/matlab-basics\/\">https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/category\/matlab-basics\/<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2007\/10\/26\/matlab-basics-linearly-spaced-vectors\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/874493ee-a097-4dd8-8a1e-7a74cba21f3b\/c1144440-e20b-46c8-94a7-f13c75fc38d7\/1280x720\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/>\n      <div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">3:01<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n      <\/a><\/div><p>When I look at code written by new users, sometimes, I will see code like this:\r\n\r\na = [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15];\r\n\r\nThere is an easier way:\r\n\r\na = 1:13;\r\n\r\nThis three minute video shows&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2007\/10\/26\/matlab-basics-linearly-spaced-vectors\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}