! - % & ' ' ( ) * + , . ... / : < = == > \ ^ {} | ~ ~= 1-norm 1-norm 2-norm (estimate of) abs Accelerator Uimenu property accuracy of linear equation solution of matrix inversion relative floating-point acos acosh acot acoth acsc acsch Adams-Bashforth-Moulton ODE solver addframe AVI files addition (arithmetic operator) addpath addressing selected array elements adjacency graph airy aligning scattered data multi-dimensional two-dimensional ALim, Axes property all allocation of storage (automatic) alpha channel AlphaData image property surface property AlphaDataMapping image property patch property surface property AmbientLightColor, Axes property AmbientStrength Patch property Surface property and (M-file function equivalent for &) AND, logical bit-wise angle annotating plots ans anti-diagonal any arccosecant arccosine arccotangent arcsecant arcsine arctangent (four-quadrant) area arguments, M-file checking number of input number of input number of output passing variable numbers of arithmetic operations, matrix and array distinguished arithmetic operators reference array addressing selected elements of displaying finding indices of left division (arithmetic operator) maximum elements of mean elements of median elements of minimum elements of multiplication (arithmetic operator) of all ones power (arithmetic operator) product of elements of random numbers of random numbers removing first n singleton dimensions of removing singleton dimensions of reshaping right division (arithmetic operator) shifting dimensions of size of sorting elements of structure structure structure structure sum of elements swapping dimensions of swapping dimensions of transpose (arithmetic operator) of all zeros arrays editing maximum size of opening arrowhead matrix ASCII delimited files writing ASCII data converting sparse matrix after loading from printable characters (list of) reading reading from disk saving to disk asech asin asinh aspect ratio of axes aspect ratio of axes assignin atan2 .au files reading writing audio saving in AVI format signal conversion signal conversion autoselection of OpenGL auwrite average of array elements avifile aviinfo aviread Axes creating defining default properties fixed-width font property descriptions axes setting and querying data aspect ratio setting and querying limits setting and querying plot box aspect ratio axes editing axis axis crossing See zero of a function azimuth (spherical coordinates) azimuth of viewpoint BackFaceLighting Surface property BackFaceLightingpatch property BackGroundColor Uicontrol property BackingStore, Figure property badly conditioned balance bar bar3 bar3h barh base to decimal conversion base two operations conversion from decimal to binary logarithm next power of two base2dec beep Bessel functions Bessel functions first kind modified second kind third kind Bessel's equation (defined) (defined) modified (defined) besselh besseli besselj besselk bessely beta beta function (defined) incomplete (defined) natural logarithm of betainc betaln bicg bicgstab big endian formats bin2dec binary data writing to file files reading mode for opened files binary data reading from disk saving to disk binary to decimal conversion bisection search bit depth querying support See also index entries for individual file formats supported bit depths bitand bitcmp bitget bitmax bitor bitset bitshift bit-wise operations AND get OR set bit shift XOR bitxor blanks removing trailing blanks blkdiag BMP BMP BMP bit depths supported when writing bold font TeX characters box Box, Axes property braces, curly (special characters) brackets (special characters) break breakpoints listing removing resuming execution from setting in M-files brighten browser for help Buckminster Fuller builtin BusyAction Axes property Figure property Image property Light property Line property patch property rectangle property Root property Surface property Text property Uicontextmenu property Uicontrol property Uimenu property ButtonDownFcn Axes property Figure property Image property Light property Line property patch property rectangle property Root property Surface property Text property Uicontextmenu property Uicontrol property Uimenu property bvp4c bvpget bvpinit bvpset bvpval caching MATLAB directory calendar CallBack Uicontextmenu property Uicontrol property Uimenu property CallbackObject, Root property camdolly camera dollying position moving camera and target postions placing a light at positioning to view objects rotating around camera target rotating around camera target rotating around viewing axis setting and querying position setting and querying projection type setting and querying target setting and querying up vector setting and querying view angle CameraPosition, Axes property CameraPositionMode, Axes property CameraTarget, Axes property CameraTargetMode, Axes property CameraUpVector, Axes property CameraUpVectorMode, Axes property CameraViewAngle, Axes property CameraViewAngleMode, Axes property camlight camlookat camorbit campan campos camproj camroll camtarget camup camva camzoom capture CaptureMatrix, Root property CaptureRect, Root property cart2pol cart2sph Cartesian coordinates Cartesian coordinates Cartesian coordinates Cartesian coordinates case in switch statement (defined) lower to upper upper to lower case cat catch caxis Cayley-Hamilton theorem cd CData Image property Surface property Uicontrol property CDataMapping Image property patch property Surface property CDatapatch property cdf2rdf ceil cell array conversion to from numeric array creating structure of, displaying cell2struct celldisp cellfun cellplot cgs char characters conversion, in format specification string conversion, in format specification string escape, in format specification string escape, in format specification string check boxes Checked, Uimenu property checkerboard pattern (example) checkin examples options checkout examples options Children Axes property Figure property Image property Light property Line property patch property rectangle property Root property Surface property Text property Uicontextmenu property Uicontrol property Uimenu property chol Cholesky factorization (as algorithm for solving linear equations) lower triangular factor minimum degree ordering and (sparse) preordering for cholinc cholinc cholupdate cla clabel class class, object See object classes classes field names loaded clc clc clear clear serial port I/O clearing Command Window items from workspace Java import list clf CLim, Axes property CLimMode, Axes property clipboard Clipping Axes property Figure property Image property Light property Line property rectangle property Root property Surface property Text property Uicontextmenu property Uicontrol property Uimenu property Clippingpatch property clock close AVI files CloseRequestFcn, Figure property closest point search closest triangle search closing files MATLAB cmopts modifying for PVCS colamd colmmd Color Axes property Figure property Light property Line property Text property colorbar colormap ColorMap, Figure property colormaps converting from RGB to HSV plotting RGB components ColorOrder, Axes property ColorSpec colperm combinations of n elements combs comet comet3 comma (special characters) Command Window clearing cursor position commands help for help for common elements See set operations, intersection compan companion matrix compass complementary error function (defined) scaled (defined) complete elliptic integral (defined) modulus of modulus of complex exponential (defined) logarithm logarithm numbers numbers, sorting numbers, sorting phase angle unitary matrix See also imaginary complex complex conjugate sorting pairs of complex data creating complex Schur form computer computer MATLAB is running on concatenating arrays cond condeig condest condition number of matrix condition number of matrix condition number of matrix conditional execution See flow control coneplot conj conjugate, complex sorting pairs of contents.m file context menu continuation (..., special characters) continue continued fraction expansion contour and mesh plot filled plot functions of mathematical expression with surface plot contour contour3 contourc contourf contours in slice planes contourslice contrast conv conv2 conversion base to decimal binary to decimal Cartesian to cylindrical Cartesian to polar complex diagonal to real block diagonal cylindrical to Cartesian decimal number to base decimal number to base decimal to binary decimal to hexadecimal full to sparse hexadecimal to decimal hexadecimal to double precision integer to string lowercase to uppercase matrix to string numeric array to cell array numeric array to logical array numeric array to string partial fraction expansion to pole-residue polar to Cartesian pole-residue to partial fraction expansion real to complex Schur form spherical to Cartesian string matrix to cell array string to numeric array uppercase to lowercase vector to character string conversion characters in format specification string conversion characters in format specification string convhull convhulln convn convolution inverse See deconvolution two-dimensional coordinate system and viewpoint coordinates Cartesian Cartesian Cartesian Cartesian cylindrical cylindrical cylindrical polar polar polar spherical See also conversion copyfile copyobj corrcoef cos cosecant hyperbolic inverse inverse hyperbolic cosh cosine hyperbolic inverse inverse hyperbolic cot cotangent hyperbolic inverse inverse hyperbolic coth cov covariance least squares solution and cplxpair cputime CreateFcn Axes property Figure property Image property Light property Line property patch property rectangle property Root property Surface property Text property Uicontextmenu property Uicontrol property Uimenu property creating your own MATLAB functions cross cross product csc csch ctranspose (M-file function equivalent for ') cubic interpolation cubic interpolation piecewise Hermite cubic spline interpolation cubic spline interpolation cubic spline interpolation cubic spline interpolation cumprod cumsum cumtrapz cumulative product sum curl curly braces (special characters) current directory changing CurrentAxes CurrentAxes, Figure property CurrentCharacter, Figure property CurrentFigure, Root property CurrentMenu, Figure property (obsolete) CurrentObject, Figure property CurrentPoint Axes property Figure property cursor images cursor position Curvature, rectangle property curve fitting (polynomial) customverctrl Cuthill-McKee ordering, reverse Cuthill-McKee ordering, reverse cylinder cylindrical coordinates cylindrical coordinates cylindrical coordinates daspect data ASCII reading from disk ASCII, saving to disk binary writing to file binary, dependence upon array size and type binary, saving to disk computing 2-D stream lines computing 3-D stream lines formatted reading from files writing to file formatting formatting isosurface from volume data reading binary from disk reading from files reducing number of elements in smoothing 3-D writing to strings data aspect ratio of axes data types complex data, aligning scattered multi-dimensional two-dimensional data, ASCII converting sparse matrix after loading from DataAspectRatio, Axes property DataAspectRatioMode, Axes property date date and time functions date string format of date vector datenum datestr datevec dbclear dbcont dbdown dbmex dbquit dbstack dbstatus dbstep dbstop dbtype dbup ddeadv ddeexec ddeinit ddepoke ddereq ddeterm ddeunadv deal deblank debugging changing workspace context changing workspace to calling M-file displaying function call stack MEX-files on UNIX M-files M-files quitting debug mode removing breakpoints resuming execution from breakpoint setting breakpoints in stepping through lines dec2base dec2base dec2bin dec2hex decimal number to base conversion decimal number to base conversion decimal point (.) (special characters) to distinguish matrix and array operations decomposition Dulmage-Mendelsohn "economy-size" "economy-size" orthogonal-triangular (QR) orthogonal-triangular (QR) Schur singular value singular value deconv deconvolution default tolerance default4 definite integral del operator del2 delaunay delaunay3 delaunayn delete delete serial port I/O DeleteFcn Axes property Figure property Image property Light property Root property Surface property Text property Uicontextmenu property Uicontrol property Uimenu property DeleteFcn, line property DeleteFcn, rectangle property DeleteFcnpatch property deleting files items from workspace delimiters in ASCII files delimiters in ASCII files density of sparse matrix depdir dependence, linear depfun derivative approximate polynomial det Detect detecting alphabetic characters empty arrays equal arrays finite numbers global variables infinite elements logical arrays members of a set NaNs objects of a given class positive, negative, and zero array elements prime numbers real numbers determinant of a matrix detrend diag diagonal anti- k-th (illustration) main sparse dialog dialog box error help input list message print question warning diary Diary, Root property DiaryFile, Root property diff differences between adjacent array elements between sets differential equation solvers defining an ODE problem ODE boundary value problems adjusting parameters of extracting properties of extracting properties of extracting properties of extracting properties of extracting properties of forming an initial guess ODE initial value problems adjusting parameters of extracting properties of parabolic-elliptic PDE problems DiffuseStrength Surface property DiffuseStrengthpatch property dimension statement (lack of in MATLAB) dimensions size of Diophantine equations dir direct term of a partial fraction expansion directories adding to search path checking existence of creating listing contents of listing MATLAB files in listing, on UNIX MATLAB caching removing from search path See also directory, search path directory root temporary system See also directories directory, changing directory, current discontinuities, eliminating (in arrays of phase angles) discontinuities, plotting functions with discontinuous problems disp disp serial port I/O display format displaying output in Command Window distribution Gaussian Dithermap Dithermap, Figure property DithermapMode, Figure property division array, left (arithmetic operator) array, right (arithmetic operator) by zero matrix, left (arithmetic operator) matrix, right (arithmetic operator) modulo of polynomials remainder after divisor greatest common dlmread dlmwrite dmperm doc docopt documentation displaying online location of files for UNIX dolly camera dot dot product dot product double double click, detecting DoubleBuffer, Figure property dragrect DrawMode, Axes property drawnow dsearch dsearchn dual vector Dulmage-Mendelsohn decomposition echo Echo, Root property edge finding, Sobel technique EdgeAlpha patch property surface property EdgeColor patch property Surface property EdgeColor, rectangle property EdgeLighting patch property Surface property editable text editing M-files eig eigensystem transforming eigenvalue accuracy of accuracy of complex matrix logarithm and modern approach to computation of multiple of companion matrix poorly conditioned problem problem problem, generalized problem, generalized problem, polynomial repeated Wilkinson test matrix and eigenvector left matrix, generalized right eigs elevation (spherical coordinates) elevation of viewpoint ellipj ellipke elliptic functions, Jacobian (defined) elliptic integral complete (defined) modulus of modulus of else elseif Enable Uicontrol property Uimenu property end end caps for isosurfaces end of line, indicating end-of-file indicator eomday eps equal sign (special characters) equations, linear accuracy of solution EraseMode Image property Line property rectangle property Surface property Text property EraseModepatch property erf erfc erfcx error catching roundoff See roundoff error error error function (defined) complementary scaled complementary error message displaying Index into matrix is negative or zero retrieving last generated error messages Out of memory errorbar errordlg ErrorMessage, Root property errors in file input/output ErrorType, Root property escape characters in format specification string escape characters in format specification string etime etree etreeplot eval evalc evalin examples calculating isosurface normals contouring mathematical expressions isosurface end caps isosurfaces mesh plot of mathematical function mesh/contour plot plotting filled contours plotting function of two variables plotting parametric curves polar plot of function reducing number of patch faces reducing volume data subsampling volume data surface plot of mathematical function surface/contour plot Excel spreadsheets loading exclamation point (special characters) executing statements repeatedly executing statements repeatedly execution conditional See flow control improving speed of by setting aside storage pausing M-file resuming from breakpoint time for M-files exist exit exp expint expm exponential complex (defined) integral matrix exponentiation array (arithmetic operator) matrix (arithmetic operator) expression, MATLAB extension, filename .m .mat Extent Text property Uicontrol property eye ezcontour ezcontourf ezmesh ezmeshc ezplot ezplot3 ezpolar ezsurf ezsurfc FaceAlphapatch property FaceAlphasurface property FaceColor Surface property FaceColor, rectangle property FaceColorpatch property FaceLighting Surface property FaceLightingpatch property faces, reducing number in patches Faces,patch property FaceVertexAlphaData, patch property FaceVertexCData,patch property factor factorial factorization LU QZ QZ See also decomposition factorization, Cholesky (as algorithm for solving linear equations) minimum degree ordering and (sparse) preordering for factors, prime fclose fclose serial port I/O feather features undocumented feof ferror feval using on function handles fft FFT See Fourier transform fft2 fftn fftshift FFTW fgetl fgetl serial port I/O fgets fgets serial port I/O field names of a structure, obtaining fields, noncontiguous, inserting data into fig files figflag Figure creating defining default properties properties redrawing figure figure windows, displaying Figures updating from M-file figures annotating opening saving file extension, getting position indicator finding setting setting to start of file file formats file formats file size querying filebrowser filename building from parts parts temporary filename extension .m .mat fileparts fileparts files ASCII delimited reading writing beginning of, rewinding to beginning of, rewinding to checking existence of closing contents, listing copying deleting end of, testing for errors in input or output Excel spreadsheets loading fig fig figure, saving finding position within getting next line getting next line (with line terminator) listing in directory names in a directory listing contents of locating MAT mdl mode when opened model, saving opening opening in Web browser path, getting pathname for reading binary data from formatted reading image data from README rewinding to beginning of rewinding to beginning of setting position within sound reading reading writing writing writing startup version, getting .wav reading writing WK1 loading writing to writing binary data to writing formatted data to writing image data to See also file fill fill3 filter two-dimensional filter filter2 find findfigs finding indices of arrays sign of array elements zero of a function See also detecting findobj finish.m finite numbers detecting FIR filter See filter fix FixedColors, Figure property fixed-width font axes text uicontrols FixedWidthFontName, Root property flint See floating-point, integer flints flipdim fliplr flipud floating-point integer integer integer, maximum numbers, interval between floating-point arithmetic, IEEE smallest postive number floor flops flow control break case else elseif end error for if keyboard otherwise return switch while fmin fminbnd fmins fminsearch F-norm font fixed-width, axes fixed-width, text fixed-width, uicontrols FontAngle Axes property Text property Uicontrol property FontName Axes property Text property Uicontrol property fonts bold italic specifying size TeX characters bold italics specifying family specifying size units FontSize Axes property Text property Uicontrol property FontUnits Axes property Text property Uicontrol property FontWeight Axes property Text property Uicontrol property fopen fopen serial port I/O for ForegroundColor Uicontrol property Uimenu property Format format precision when writing reading files specification string, matching file data to format formats big endian little endian FormatSpacing, Root property formatted data reading from file writing to file formatting data Fourier transform algorithm, optimal performance of algorithm, optimal performance of algorithm, optimal performance of algorithm, optimal performance of convolution theorem and discrete, n-dimensional discrete, one-dimensional discrete, two-dimensional fast as method of interpolation inverse, n-dimensional inverse, one-dimensional inverse, two-dimensional shifting the zero-frequency component of fplot fprintf fprintf serial port I/O fraction, continued fragmented memory frame2im frames frames for printing fread fread serial port I/O freqspace frequency response desired response matrix frequency spacing frequency vector frewind fscanf fscanf serial port I/O fseek ftell full fullfile function minimizing (several variables) minimizing (single variable) function function functions call stack for checking existence of clearing from workspace finding using keywords help for help for in memory locating pathname for that work down the first non-singleton dimension funm fwrite fwrite serial port I/O fzero gallery gamma gamma function (defined) incomplete logarithm of gammainc gammaln Gaussian distribution function Gaussian elimination (as algorithm for solving linear equations) (as algorithm for solving linear equations) Gauss Jordan elimination with partial pivoting LU factorization and gca gcbo gcd gcf gco generalized eigenvalue problem generalized eigenvalue problem generating a sequence of matrix names (M1 through M12) geodesic dome get get serial port I/O getfield getframe ginput Givens rotations Givens rotations global global variable defining global variables, clearing from workspace gmres gplot gradient gradient, numerical graph adjacency graphics objects Axes Figure getting properties Image Light Line Patch resetting properties Root setting properties Surface Text uicontextmenu Uicontrol Uimenu graphics objects, deleting graphs editing graymon greatest common divisor Greek letters and mathematical symbols grid aligning data to a grid grid arrays for volumetric plots multi-dimensional griddata griddata3 griddata3 griddatan GridLineStyle, Axes property gsvd gtext GUIs, printing H1 line hadamard Hadamard matrix subspaces of HandleVisibility Axes property Figure property Image property Light property Line property patch property rectangle property Root property Surface property Text property Uicontextmenu property Uicontrol property Uimenu property hankel Hankel functions, relationship to Bessel of Hankel matrix HDF HDF HDF appending to when saving (WriteMode) bit depths supported when writing compression reading with special imread syntax setting JPEG quality when writing hdf help contents file creating for M-files files, location for UNIX keyword search in functions online Plot Editor help Help browser accessing from doc Help Window helpbrowser helpdesk helpdlg helpwin Hermite transformations, elementary hess Hessenberg form of a matrix hex2dec hex2num hidden hilb Hilbert matrix inverse hist histc HitTest Axes property Figure property Image property Light property Line property Patch property rectangle property Root property Surface property Text property Uicontextmenu property Uicontrol property hold home HorizontalAlignment Text property Uicontrol property horzcat (M-file function equivalent for [,]) Householder reflections (as algorithm for solving linear equations) hsv2rgb HTML browser in MATLAB hyperbolic cosecant cosecant, inverse cosine cosine, inverse cotangent cotangent, inverse secant secant secant, inverse sine sine sine, inverse tangent tangent tangent, inverse hyperplanes, angle between i icon images identity matrix sparse IEEE floating-point arithmetic smallest positive number if ifft ifft2 ifftn ifftshift IIR filter See filter im2frame imag Image creating defining default properties properties image image types querying images file formats file formats reading data from files returning information about writing to files imagesc imaginary part of complex number parts of inverse FFT parts of inverse FFT unit (sqrt(-1)) unit (sqrt(-1)) See also complex imfinfo returning file information import importdata importing Java class and package names imread imwrite imwrite incomplete beta function (defined) gamma function (defined) ind2sub Index into matrix is negative or zero (error message) indexing logical indicator of file position indices, array finding of sorted elements Inf inferiorto infinity infinity norm info information returning file information inheritance, of objects inheritance, of objects inline inpolygon input checking number of M-file arguments name of array passed as number of M-file arguments prompting users for prompting users for input inputdlg installation, root directory of instraction instrfind int2str int8, int16, int32 integer floating-point floating-point floating-point, maximum integration quadrature interp1 interp2 interp3 interpft interpn interpolated shading and printing interpolation one-dimensional two-dimensional three-dimensional multidimensional cubic method cubic method cubic method cubic method cubic method cubic spline method FFT method linear method linear method nearest neighbor method nearest neighbor method nearest neighbor method nearest neighbor method nearest neighbor method trilinear method trilinear method trilinear method interpreter, MATLAB search algorithm of Interpreter, Text property Interruptible Axes property Figure property Image property Light property Line property patch property rectangle property Root property Surface property Text property Uicontextmenu property Uicontrol property Uimenu property intersect inv inverse cosecant cosine cotangent Fourier transform Fourier transform Fourier transform four-quadrant tangent Hilbert matrix hyperbolic cosecant hyperbolic cosine hyperbolic cotangent hyperbolic secant hyperbolic sine hyperbolic tangent of a matrix secant sine tangent inversion, matrix accuracy of InvertHardCopy, Figure property invhilb involutary matrix ipermute is* isa iscell iscellstr ischar isempty isequal isfield isfinite isglobal ishandle ishold isinf isletter islogical ismember isnan isnumeric isobject isocap isonormals isosurface calculate data from volume end caps vertex normals isosurface isprime isreal isspace issparse isstr isstruct isstudent isunix isvalid isvarname italics font TeX characters j Jacobi rotations Jacobian elliptic functions (defined) Java class names objects Java import list adding to clearing Java version used by MATLAB java_method java_method java_method java_method java_object joining arrays See concatenating arrays JPEG files JPEG files JPEG files bit depths supported when writing parameters that can be set when writing JPEG quality setting when writing a JPEG image setting when writing an HDF image K>> prompt keyboard keyboard mode terminating KeyPressFcn, Figure property keyword search in functions kron Kronecker tensor product Label, Uimenu property labeling axes matrix columns plots (with numeric values) Laplacian largest array elements lasterr lastwarn LaTeX, see TeX Layer, Axes property Layout Editor starting lcm ldivide (M-file function equivalent for .\) least common multiple least squares polynomial curve fitting problem problem, nonnegative problem, overdetermined legend legendre Legendre functions (defined) Schmidt semi-normalized length length serial port I/O license Light creating defining default properties positioning in camera coordinates properties light Light object positioning in spherical coordinates lightangle lighting limits of axes, setting and querying Line creating defining default properties properties properties line editing line numbers in M-files linear audio signal linear audio signal linear dependence (of data) linear equation systems accuracy of solution solving overdetermined linear equation systems, methods for solving Cholesky factorization Gaussian elimination Householder reflections least squares matrix inversion (inaccuracy of) linear interpolation linear interpolation linearly spaced vectors, creating lines computing 2-D stream computing 3-D stream drawing stream lines LineSpec LineStyle Line property patch property rectangle property Surface object LineStyleOrder Axes property LineWidth Axes property Line property Patch property rectangle property Surface property linspace list boxes defining items ListboxTop, Uicontrol property listdlg little endian formats load load serial port I/O loadobj Lobatto IIIa ODE solver local variables local variables locking M-files log saving session to file log log10 [log010] log2 logarithm base ten base two complex complex matrix (natural) natural of beta function (natural) of gamma function (natural) plotting logarithmically spaced vectors, creating logical logical array converting numeric array to detecting logical indexing logical operations AND, bit-wise OR, bit-wise XOR XOR, bit-wise logical operators logical tests all any See also detecting loglog logm logspace lookfor Lotus WK1 files loading writing lower lower triangular matrix lowercase to uppercase ls lscov lsqnonneg lsqr 1119 lu LU factorization storage requirements of (sparse) luinc machine epsilon magic magic squares Marker Line property Patch property Surface property MarkerEdgeColor Line property Patch property Surface property MarkerFaceColor Line property Patch property Surface property MarkerSize Line property Patch property Surface property mat2str material MAT-file converting sparse matrix after loading from MAT-files listing for directory MATLAB installation directory quitting startup version number, displaying matlab MATLAB interpreter search algorithm of MATLAB startup file matlab.mat matlab.mat matlabrc matlabroot matrix addressing selected rows and columns of arrowhead companion complex unitary condition number of condition number of condition number of converting to formatted data file converting to from string converting to vector decomposition defective (defined) determinant of diagonal of Dulmage-Mendelsohn decomposition of evaluating functions of exponential flipping left-right flipping up-down Hadamard Hadamard Hankel Hermitian Toeplitz Hessenberg form of Hilbert identity inverse inverse Hilbert inversion, accuracy of involutary left division (arithmetic operator) lower triangular magic squares magic squares maximum size of modal multiplication (defined) orthonormal Pascal Pascal permutation permutation poorly conditioned power (arithmetic operator) pseudoinverse reading files into reduced row echelon form of replicating right division (arithmetic operator) Rosser rotating 90° Schur form of Schur form of singularity, test for sorting rows of sparse See sparse matrix specialized square root of subspaces of test Toeplitz trace of trace of transpose (arithmetic operator) transposing unimodular unitary upper triangular Vandermonde Wilkinson Wilkinson writing as binary data writing formatted data to writing to ASCII delimited file writing to spreadsheet See also array matrix functions evaluating matrix names, (M1 through M12) generating a sequence of matrix power See matrix, exponential max Max, Uicontrol property MDL-files checking existence of mean median median value of array elements memory clearing minimizing use of variables in menu menu (of user input choices) MenuBar, Figure property mesh meshc meshgrid MeshStyle, Surface property meshz message error See error message warning See warning message methods inheritance of inheritance of MEX-files clearing from workspace debugging on UNIX listing for directory M-file debugging displaying during execution function function file, echoing naming conventions pausing execution of programming script script file, echoing M-files checking existence of clearing from workspace creating in MATLAB directory debugging with profile deleting editing line numbers, listing listing names of in a directory locking (preventing clearing) opening optimizing setting breakpoints unlocking (allowing clearing) Microsoft Excel files loading min Min, Uicontrol property MinColorMap, Figure property minimizing, function of one variable of several variables minimum degree ordering minres minus (M-file function equivalent for -) mislocked mkdir mldivide (M-file function equivalent for \) mlock mod modal matrix models opening saving modulo arithmetic Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse more more movie movie2avi moviein movies exporting in AVI format mpower (M-file function equivalent for ^) mrdivide (M-file function equivalent for /) msgbox mtimes (M-file function equivalent for *) mu-law encoded audio signals mu-law encoded audio signals multidimensional arrays concatenating interpolation of longest dimension of number of dimensions of rearranging dimensions of rearranging dimensions of removing singleton dimensions of reshaping size of sorting elements of See also array multiple least common multiplication array (arithmetic operator) matrix (defined) of polynomials multistep ODE solver munlock Name, Figure property naming conventions M-file NaN NaN (Not-a-Number) NaN (Not-a-Number) returned by rem nargchk nargin nargout ndgrid ndims nearest neighbor interpolation nearest neighbor interpolation nearest neighbor interpolation Nelder-Mead simplex search newplot NextPlot Axes property Figure property nextpow2 nnls nnz no derivative method noncontiguous fields, inserting data into nonzero entries number of in sparse matrix nonzero entries (in sparse matrix) allocated storage for number of replacing with ones vector of nonzeros norm 1-norm 1-norm 2-norm (estimate of) F-norm infinity matrix pseudoinverse and 2-1286-?? vector norm normal vectors, computing for volumes NormalMode Patch property Surface property normest not (M-file function equivalent for ~) now null null space num2cell num2str number of array dimensions numbers complex complex finite imaginary minus infinity NaN NaN plus infinity plus infinity prime prime random random real real smallest positive NumberTitle, Figure property numel numeric format numeric precision format reading binary data numerical differentiation formula ODE solvers nzmax object determining class of inheritance inheritance object classes, list of predefined object classes, list of predefined objects Java ODE file template ODE See differential equation solvers ode45 and other ODE solvers odefile odeget odeset off-screen figures, displaying ones one-step ODE solver online documentation, displaying online help location of files for UNIX open OpenGL autoselection criteria opening files openvar operating system command, issuing operators arithmetic logical relational relational special characters symbols optimget optimization parameters structure optimization parameters structure Optimization Toolbox Optimization Toolbox optimizing M-file execution optimset logical OR bit-wise or (M-file function equivalent for |) ordering minimum degree reverse Cuthill-McKee reverse Cuthill-McKee orient orth orthogonal-triangular decomposition orthogonal-triangular decomposition orthographic projection, setting and querying orthonormal matrix otherwise Out of memory (error message) output controlling display format in Command Window number of M-file arguments overdetermined equation systems, solving overflow pack Padé approximation (of matrix exponential) pagedlg pagesetupdlg paging of screen paging in the Command Window PaperOrientation, Figure property PaperPosition, Figure property PaperPositionMode, Figure property PaperSize, Figure property PaperType, Figure property PaperUnits, Figure property parametric curve, plotting Parent Axes property Figure property Image property Light property Line property Patch property rectangle property Root property Surface property Text property Uicontextmenu property Uicontrol property Uimenu property parentheses (special characters) pareto Parlett's method (of evaluating matrix functions) partial fraction expansion partialpath pascal Pascal matrix Pascal matrix Patch converting a surface to creating defining default properties properties reducing number of faces reducing size of face patch path adding directories to building from parts current removing directories from viewing path pathname partial pathnames of functions or files relative pathtool pause pauses, removing pausing M-file execution pbaspect pcg pchip pcode pcolor PCX PCX PCX bit depths supported when writing PDE See Partial Differential Equations pdepe pdeval percent sign (special characters) period (.), to distinguish matrix and array operations period (special characters) perms permutation of array dimensions matrix matrix random permutations of n elements permute persistent persistent variable perspective projection, setting and querying P-files checking existence of phase, complex correcting angles pi pi () pi () pi () pie pie3 pinv platform MATLAB is running on plot editing plot box aspect ratio of axes Plot Editor help for interface interface plot, volumetric generating grid arrays for slice plot plot3 PlotBoxAspectRatio, Axes property PlotBoxAspectRatioMode, Axes property plotedit plotmatrix plotting 2-D plot 3-D plot contours (a contours (ez function) errorbars ez-function mesh plot feather plots filled contours function plots functions with discontinuities histogram plots in polar coordinates isosurfaces loglog plot mathematical function mesh contour plot mesh plot parametric curve plot with two y-axes ribbon plot rose plot scatter plot scatter plot scatter plot, 3-D semilogarithmic plot stairstep plot stem plot stem plot, 3-D surface plot surfaces velocity vectors volumetric slice plot plotting See visualizing plotyy plus (M-file function equivalent for +) PNG bit depths supported when writing reading with special imread syntax writing options for alpha background color chromaticities gamma interlace type resolution significant bits transparency Pointer, Figure property PointerLocation, Root property PointerShapeCData, Figure property PointerShapeHotSpot, Figure property PointerWindow, Root property pol2cart polar polar polar coordinates polar coordinates polar coordinates plotting in poles of transfer function poly polyarea polyder polyeig polyfit polygon area of creating with patch detecting points inside polyint polynomial analytic integration characteristic coefficients (transfer function) curve fitting with derivative of division eigenvalue problem evaluation evaluation (matrix sense) multiplication polyval polyvalm poorly conditioned eigenvalues matrix pop-up menus defining choices Position Axes property Figure property Light property Text property Uicontextmenu property Uicontrol property Uimenu property position indicator in file position of camera dollying position of camera, setting and querying Position, rectangle property PostScript printing interpolated shading pow2 power matrix See matrix exponential of two, next power (M-file function equivalent for .^) ppval precision reading binary data writing prime factors dependence of Fourier transform on dependence of Fourier transform on dependence of Fourier transform on prime numbers prime numbers primes print print frames printdlg printer drivers GhostScript drivers interploated shading MATLAB printer drivers printframe PrintFrame Editor printing borders GUIs interpolated shading on MS-Windows with a variable filename with non-normal EraseMode with non-normal EraseMode with non-normal EraseMode with non-normal EraseMode with non-normal EraseMode with non-normal EraseMode with print frames printing tips printing, suppressing printopt prod product cumulative Kronecker tensor of array elements of vectors (cross) scalar (dot) profile profile report profreport projection type, setting and querying ProjectionType, Axes property K>> prompt prompting users for input prompting users for input propedit Property Editor interface Property Inspector starting pseudoinverse push buttons pwd qmr qr QR decomposition QR decomposition deleting a column from inserting a column into qrdelete qrinsert quad quad8 quadl quadrature questdlg quit quitting MATLAB quiver quiver3 quotation mark inserting in a string qz QZ factorization QZ factorization radio buttons rand rand randn randn random numbers numbers permutation sparse matrix sparse matrix symmetric sparse matrix randperm range space rank rank of a matrix rat rational fraction approximation rats rbbox rbbox rcond rdivide (M-file function equivalent for ./) readasync reading binary files data from files formatted data from file formatted data from strings README file readme files, displaying real real numbers real numbers realmax realmin rearranging arrays converting to vector removing first n singleton dimensions removing singleton dimensions reshaping shifting dimensions swapping dimensions swapping dimensions rearranging matrices converting to vector flipping left-right flipping up-down rotating 90° transposing record rectint RecursionLimit Root property reduced row echelon form reducepatch reducevolume reference page accessing from doc refresh regularly spaced vectors, creating regularly spaced vectors, creating rehash relational operators relational operators relative accuracy floating-point rem remainder after division renderer OpenGL painters zbuffer Renderer, Figure property RendererMode, Figure property repeatedly executing statements repeatedly executing statements replicating a matrix repmat reports profile reset reshape residue residues of transfer function Resize, Figure property ResizeFcn, Figure property return reverse Cuthill-McKee ordering reverse Cuthill-McKee ordering rewinding files to beginning of rewinding files to beginning of RGB, converting to HSV rgb2hsv rgbplot ribbon right-click and context menus rmfield rmpath RMS See root-mean-square rolling camera root root directory Root graphics object root object root, see rootobject root-mean-square of vector roots roots of a polynomial rose rose Rosenbrock banana function Rosenbrock banana function Rosenbrock ODE solver Rosser matrix rot90 rotate rotate3d rotating camera rotating camera target Rotation, Text property rotations Givens Givens Jacobi round to nearest integer towards infinity towards minus infinity towards zero round roundoff error characteristic polynomial and convolution theorem and effect on eigenvalues evaluating matrix functions in inverse Hilbert matrix partial fraction expansion and polynomial roots and sparse matrix conversion and rref rrefmovie rsf2csf rubberband box Runge-Kutta ODE solvers Runge-Kutta ODE solvers save save serial port I/O saveas saving ASCII data session to a file workspace variables scalar product (of vectors) scaled complementary error function (defined) scatter scatter3 scattered data, aligning multi-dimensional two-dimensional Schmidt semi-normalized Legendre functions schur Schur decomposition Schur form of matrix Schur form of matrix screen, paging ScreenDepth, Root property ScreenSize, Root property script scrolling screen search path adding directories to MATLAB's modifying viewing search, string sec secant secant, inverse secant, inverse hyperbolic sech Selected Axes property Figure property Image property Light property Line property Patch property rectangle property Root property Surface property Text property Uicontextmenu property Uicontrol property Uimenu property selecting areas SelectionHighlight Axes property Figure property Image property Light property Line property Patch property rectangle property Surface property Text property Uicontextmenu property Uicontrol property SelectionType, Figure property selectmoveresize semicolon (special characters) semilogx semilogy Separator, Uimenu property sequence of matrix names (M1 through M12) generating serial serialbreak session saving set set serial port I/O set operations difference exclusive or intersection membership union unique setdiff setfield setstr setxor shading shading colors in surface plots ShareColors, Figure property shiftdim ShowHiddenHandles, Root property shrinkfaces shutdown sign signum function simplex search Simpson's rule, adaptive recursive Simulink printing diagram with frames version number, displaying sin sine sine, inverse sine, inverse hyperbolic single quote (special characters) singular value decomposition decomposition largest rank and sinh size size serial port I/O size of array dimensions size of fonts, see also FontSize property size vector size vector skipping bytes (during file I/O) slice slice planes, contouring sliders SliderStep, Uicontrol property smallest array elements smooth3 smoothing 3-D data soccer ball (example) sort sorting array elements complex conjugate pairs matrix rows sortrows sound converting vector into converting vector into files reading reading writing writing playing recording resampling sampling sound sound soundcap source control systems checking in files checking out files undo checkout viewing current system spalloc sparse sparse matrices solving least squares linear systems sparse matrix allocating space for applying function only to nonzero elements of density of diagonal finding indices of nonzero elements of identity minimum degree ordering of number of nonzero elements in number of nonzero elements in permuting columns of random random random symmetric replacing nonzero elements of with ones results of mixed operations on vector of nonzero elements visualizing sparsity pattern of sparse storage criterion for using spaugment spconvert spdiags special characters descriptions SpecularColorReflectance Patch property Surface property SpecularExponent Patch property Surface property SpecularStrength Patch property Surface property speye spfun sph2cart sphere sphereical coordinates defining a Light position in spherical coordinates spinmap spline spline interpolation (cubic) spline interpolation (cubic) spline interpolation (cubic) spline interpolation (cubic) Spline Toolbox spones spparms sprand sprandn sprandsym spreadsheets loading WK1 files loading XLS files reading into a matrix writing from matrix writing matrices into sqrt sqrtm square root of a matrix of array elements squeeze sscanf stack, displaying stairs standard deviation startup startup file startup files Stateflow printing diagram with frames static text std stem stem3 stopasync stopwatch timer storage allocated for nonzero entries (sparse) sparse str2cell str2num str2num strcat strcmp strcmpi stream lines computing 2-D computing 3-D drawing stream2 stream3 stretch-to-fill String Text property Uicontrol property string comparing one to another comparing the first n characters of two converting from vector to converting matrix into converting matrix into converting to lowercase converting to numeric array converting to uppercase dictionary sort of finding first token in searching and replacing searching for string matrix to cell array conversion strings converting to matrix (formatted) inserting a quotation mark in writing data to strings strjust strmatch strncmp strncmpi strrep strtok struct2cell structure array field names of getting contents of field of remove field from setting contents of a field of strvcat Style Light property Uicontrol property sub2ind subfunction subplot subsasgn subscripts in axis title in text strings subspace subsref subsref (M-file function equivalent for A(i,j,k...)) subtraction (arithmetic operator) subvolume sum cumulative of array elements sum superiorto superscripts in axis title in text strings support surf surf2patch Surface and contour plotter converting to a patch creating defining default properties defining default properties plotting mathematical functions properties surface surface normals, computing for volumes surfc surfl surfnorm svd svds switch symamd symbfact symbols operators symbols in text symmlq symmmd symrcm syntaxes of M-file functions, defining system directory, temporary table lookup See interpolation Tag Axes property Figure property Image property Light property Line property Patch property rectangle property Root property Surface property Text property Uicontextmenu property Uicontrol property Uimenu property tan tangent hyperbolic tangent (four-quadrant), inverse tangent, inverse tangent, inverse hyperbolic tanh target, of camera Taylor series (matrix exponential approximation) tempdir tempname temporary files system directory tensor, Kronecker product terminal terminating MATLAB test matrices test, logical See logical tests and detecting test, logical See logical tests and detecting TeX commands in text Text creating defining default properties fixed-width font properties text subscripts superscripts text editing text mode for opened files textread textwrap tic TickDir, Axes property TickDirMode, Axes property TickLength, Axes property TIFF TIFF TIFF bit depths supported when writing compression ImageDescription field parameters that can be set when writing reading with special imread syntax resolution writemode tiling (copies of a matrix) time CPU elapsed (stopwatch timer) required to execute commands time and date functions times (M-file function equivalent for .*) title with superscript with superscript title Title, Axes property toc toeplitz Toeplitz matrix toggle buttons token See also string tolerance, default Toolbox Optimization Optimization Spline TooltipString Uicontrol property trace trace of a matrix trace of a matrix trailing blanks removing transform, Fourier discrete, n-dimensional discrete, one-dimensional discrete, two-dimensional inverse, n-dimensional inverse, one-dimensional inverse, two-dimensional shifting the zero-frequency component of transformation elementary Hermite left and right (QZ) See also conversion transparency transparency chunk transpose array (arithmetic operator) matrix (arithmetic operator) transpose (M-file function equivalent for .') trapz treelayout treeplot tricubic interpolation tril trilinear interpolation trilinear interpolation trilinear interpolation trimesh trisurf triu truth tables (for logical operations) try tsearch tsearchn Type Axes property Figure property Image property Light property Line property Patch property rectangle property Root property Surface property Text property Uicontextmenu property Uicontrol property Uimenu property type UIContextMenu Axes property Figure property Image property Light property Line property Patch property rectangle property Surface property Text property UiContextMenu Uicontrol property Uicontextmenu properties Uicontextmenu Uicontextmenu property uicontextmenu Uicontrol defining default properties fixed-width font properties types of uicontrol uigetfile uiimport Uimenu creating defining default properties properties uimenu uint* uint8 uint8 uiputfile uiresume uisetcolor uisetfont uiwait uminus (M-file function equivalent for unary -) unconstrained minimization undefined numerical results undocheckout undocumented functionality unimodular matrix union unique unitary matrix (complex) Units Axes property Figure property Root property Text property Uicontrol property unlocking M-files unwrap up vector, of camera updating figure during M-file execution uplus (M-file function equivalent for unary +) upper triangular matrix uppercase to lowercase url opening in Web browser UserData Axes property Figure property Image property Light property Line property Patch property rectangle property Root property Surface property Text property Uicontextmenu property Uicontrol property Uimenu property Value, Uicontrol property Vandermonde matrix var varargout variable numbers of M-file arguments variables checking existence of clearing from workspace global graphical representation of in workspace listing local local name of passed opening opening persistent saving sizes of vector dot product dual frequency length of product (cross) vector field, plotting vectorize vectors, creating logarithmically spaced regularly spaced regularly spaced velocity vectors, plotting ver version version numbers displaying returned as strings vertcat (M-file function equivalent for [;]) VertexNormals Patch property Surface property VerticalAlignment, Text property Vertices, Patch property video saving in AVI format view azimuth of viewpoint coordinate system defining elevation of viewpoint view view angle, of camera View, Axes property (obsolete) viewing a group of object a specific object in a scene viewmtx Visible Axes property Figure property Image property Light property Line property Patch property rectangle property Root property Surface property Text property Uicontextmenu property Uicontrol property Uimenu property visualizing cell array structure sparse matrices volumes calculating isosurface data computing 2-D stream lines computing 3-D stream lines computing isosurface normals contouring slice planes drawing stream lines end caps reducing face size in isosurfaces reducing number of elements in voronoi waitbar waitfor waitforbuttonpress warndlg warning warning message (enabling, suppressing, and displaying) waterfall .wav files reading writing waveplay waverecord wavplay wavread wavrecord wavwrite web Web browser displaying help in pointing to file or url weekday well conditioned what whatsnew which while white space characters, ASCII white space characters, ASCII whitebg who whos wilkinson Wilkinson matrix Wilkinson matrix WindowButtonDownFcn, Figure property WindowButtonMotionFcn, Figure property WindowButtonUpFcn, Figure property WindowStyle, Figure property WK1 files loading writing from matrix wk1read wk1write workspace changing context while debugging changing context while debugging clearing items from consolidating memory predefining variables saving variables in viewing contents of workspace workspace variables reading from disk writing binary data to file formatted data to file x-axis limits, setting and querying XAxisLocation, Axes property XColor, Axes property XData Image property Line property Patch property Surface property XDir, Axes property XDisplay, Figure property XGrid, Axes property xlabel XLabel, Axes property xlim XLim, Axes property XLimMode, Axes property XLS files loading xlsfinfo xlsread logical XOR bit-wise xor XOR, printing XOR, printing XOR, printing XOR, printing XOR, printing XOR, printing XScale, Axes property XTick, Axes property XTickLabel, Axes property XTickLabelMode, Axes property XTickMode, Axes property XVisual, Figure property XVisualMode, Figure property XWD XWD XWD bit depths supported when writing xyz coordinates See Cartesian coordinates xyz coordinates See Cartesian coordinates y-axis limits, setting and querying YAxisLocation, Axes property YColor, Axes property YData Image property Line property Patch property Surface property YDir, Axes property YGrid, Axes property ylabel YLabel, Axes property ylim YLim, Axes property YLimMode, Axes property YScale, Axes property YTick, Axes property YTickLabel, Axes property YTickLabelMode, Axes property YTickMode, Axes property z-axis limits, setting and querying ZColor, Axes property ZData Line property Patch property Surface property ZDir, Axes property zero of a function, finding zero-padding while converting hexadecimal numbers zero-padding when reading binary files zeros ZGrid, Axes property zlabel zlim ZLim, Axes property ZLimMode, Axes property zoom ZScale, Axes property ZTick, Axes property ZTickLabel, Axes property ZTickLabelMode, Axes property ZTickMode, Axes property