Getting Started with Matlab

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Getting Started With MATLAB
Revised by Clinton Wolfe (June 1999)
Original by David Hart
Introduction
What is Matlab?
MATLAB is a computer program for people doing numerical computation, especially linear algebra (matrices). It
began as a “MATrix LABoratory” program, intended to provide interactive access to the libraries Linpack and
Eispack. It has since grown well beyond these libraries, to become a powerful tool for visualization, programming,
research, engineering, and communication.
Matlab’s strengths include cutting-edge algorithms, enormous data handling abilities, and powerful programming
tools. Matlab is not designed for symbolic computation, but it makes up for this weakness by allowing the user to
directly link to Maple. The interface is mostly text-based, which may be disconcerting for some users.
Matlab is packaged as a core program with several “toolboxes”, sold seperately. We will only cover the core
package. The current (June 1999) version is Matlab 5.3 release 11.
How to use this document
This document is intended to be used while sitting at a computer running either NT or the X windows system. It is
assumed that you will enter the commands…