Matlab data classes advantages

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Yung Xi
Yung Xi on 24 Oct 2019
Edited: Adam on 24 Oct 2019
Hi,
What are the Matlab data classes and the advantages and disadvantages of each class?
Thank you.

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Adam
Adam on 24 Oct 2019
Edited: Adam on 24 Oct 2019
https://uk.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/fundamental-matlab-classes.html
In basic terms obviously floating point (double,single) gives higher accuracy, but takes more memory, with double taking double the memory of a single (well, yes...). Different integer types also follow the same logic - the lower the memory usage the lower the accuracy.

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