Chapter 1. Introduction
MATLAB is a powerful computing system for handling scientific and engineering calculations. The name MATLAB stands for Matrix Laboratory, because the system was designed to make matrix computations particularly easy. A matrix is an array of numbers organized in m rows and n columns. An example is the following m × n = 2 × 3 array:
Any one of the elements in a matrix can be plucked out by using the row and column indices that identify its location. The elements in ...
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