Page 8 - A Guide to MATLAB for Beginners and Experienced Users
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Contents
Preface page xiii
1 Getting Started 1
Platforms and Versions 1
Installation and Location 2
Starting MATLAB 2
Typing in the Command Window 3
Online Help 4
Interrupting Calculations 5
MATLAB Windows 6
Ending a Session 7
2 MATLAB Basics 8
Input and Output 8
Arithmetic 8
Algebra 10
Symbolic Expressions, Variable Precision, and Exact
Arithmetic 11
Managing Variables 13
Errors in Input 14
Online Help 15
Variables and Assignments 16
Solving Equations 17
Vectors and Matrices 20
Vectors 21
Matrices 23
Suppressing Output 24
Functions 24
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