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Comparing Single-threaded vs. Multithreaded Floating Point Calculations
There continue to be a flurry of queries suggesting that MATLAB has bugs when it comes to certain operations...
16 years ago
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Unique Values Without Rearrangement
In MATLAB, the simplest form of the function unique returns the unique values contained in a numeric vector,...
16 years ago
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Coordinating Zero Removals from Multiple Arrays
I've fielded some questions recently about how to coordinate multiple arrays changing simultaneously. One...
16 years ago
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Empty Arrays with Flow of Control and Logical Operators
After reading last week's post on calculating with empty arrays, one of my colleagues mentioned some other...
16 years ago
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Calculus with Empty Arrays
MATLAB has had empty arrays since before I started using the program. When I started, the only size empty array...
16 years ago
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Dealing with Cells
A customer recently asked me this question at the MATLAB Virtual Conference. Contents ...
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Concatenating structs
From time to time, I get asked or see queries about how to concatenate two struct arrays to merge the fields. ...
16 years ago
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Handling Discrete Data
Discrete data arise in many applications and the data may be numeric, or non-numeric, often referred to as...
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October 14 – Virtual MATLAB Conference
We're having a MATLAB conference on October 14, in the virtual world. There'll be presentations, forums, chats, live...
16 years ago
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Using parfor Loops: Getting Up and Running
Note. NOTE: matlabpool was removed in 2015 and you should replace that with parpool instead. ...
16 years ago
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MATLAB Release 2009b – Best New Feature or ~?
MATLAB R2009b was recently released. My favorite new language feature is the introduction of the ~ notation to...
16 years ago
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Rounding Results
There are frequent questions on the MATLAB newsgroup about rounding results to a certain number of decimal...
16 years ago
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Precision and realmax
I was on a recent email thread at the office regarding realmax, eps, and overflow. Contents ...
16 years ago
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Evens and Odds
There are so many functions in MATLAB that sometimes users think that if they can't find the function they are...
16 years ago
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Math in Poetry, Poetry in Math
You hear a fair amount about the mathematically inclined people who are really into music. You hear less about that...
16 years ago
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Computational Geometry in MATLAB R2009a, Part II
I am pleased to welcome back Damian Sheehy for the sequel to his earlier Computational Geometry post. Contents What's...
16 years ago
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Computational Geometry in MATLAB R2009a, Part I
I'm pleased to introduce Damian Sheehy as this week's guest blogger. Damian is a geometry developer at The...
16 years ago
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A Brief History of polyval
When I first started working at MathWorks, there were already a few functions in MATLAB for working with...
16 years ago
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Find Largest Positive Value Next to Zero
Recently, Steve wrote a blog discussing code clarity/obscurity in the context of one-line code solutions. ...
16 years ago
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Rooting Around in MATLAB – Part 3
I recently wrote a pair of posts (1 and 2) about finding roots of equations, and how you might use MATLAB to...
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Rooting Around in MATLAB – Part 2
In a recent post, I started a series of posts about finding roots of equations, and how you might use MATLAB to...
16 years ago
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Rooting Around in MATLAB – Part 1
I've been interested in teaching for a long time, including ways to use MATLAB. One concept that students...
16 years ago
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Hold Everything!
Have you ever tried to overlap more than one plot, only to find that you had to fiddle with a few times before...
16 years ago
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From struct to dataset
When I got to work last Friday, I saw an email discussion, on behalf of a customer, trying to find a good way...
17 years ago
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Optional Arguments Using Empty as Placeholder
I recently posted about optional input arguments and how to override default values. Gautam mentioned wanting...
17 years ago
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Nice Way to Set Function Defaults
Last week, I wrote a post on the switch statement in MATLAB. One theme in the comments was about using switch (or not!) for...
17 years ago
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Switching Things Up
If you have ever used a switch statement in MATLAB and also used it in C, you might have noticed that the two...
17 years ago
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Learning MATLAB
Do you learn best by reading, watching, or doing? I do best with a combination of all three for learning...
17 years ago
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Convenient nargout Behavior
Here's a question that was recently posed at MathWorks. I'm trying to invoke a function handle. It...
17 years ago
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Palindrome Numbers
Today I'd like to introduce a guest blogger, Mike Garrity, who is a graphics software developer at The...
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