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Scilab help >> Elementary Functions

Elementary Functions

• Bitwise operations
  • bitand — bitwise AND
  • bitcmp — bitwise complement
  • bitget — bit at specified position
  • bitor — bitwise OR
  • bitset — set bit at specified position
  • bitxor — bitwise XOR
• Discrete mathematics
  • binomial — binomial distribution probabilities
  • factor — factor function
  • factorial — The factorial function
  • perms — all permutations of vector components
  • primes — primes function
  • rat — Floating point rational approximation
• Elementary matrices
  • diag — diagonal including or extracting
  • eye — identity matrix
  • ind2sub — linear index to matrix subscript values
  • linspace — linearly spaced vector
  • logspace — logarithmically spaced vector
  • meshgrid — create matrices or 3-D arrays
  • ndgrid — arrays for multidimensional function evaluation on grid
  • ones — matrix made of ones
  • rand — random number generator
  • sub2ind — matrix subscript values to linear index
  • zeros — matrix made of zeros
• Floating point
  • ceil — rounding up
  • double — conversion from integer to double precision representation
  • fix — rounding towards zero
  • floor — rounding down
  • frexp — dissect floating-point numbers into base 2 exponent and mantissa
  • int — integer part
  • isinf — check for infinite entries
  • isnan — check for "Not a Number" entries
  • nearfloat — get previous or next floating-point number
  • nextpow2 — next higher power of 2.
  • number_properties — determine floating-point parameters
  • round — rounding
• Integer representation
  • base2dec — conversion from base b representation to integers
  • bin2dec — integer corresponding to a binary form
  • dec2bin — binary representation
  • dec2hex — hexadecimal representation of integers
  • dec2oct — octal representation of integers
  • hex2dec — conversion from hexadecimal representation to integers
  • oct2dec — conversion from octal representation to integers
• Matrix manipulation
  • flipdim — flip x components along a given dimension
  • permute — permute the dimensions of an array
  • repmat — Replicate and tile an array
  • resize_matrix — create a new matrix with a different size
• Matrix operations
  • cumprod — cumulative product of array elements
  • cumsum — cumulative sum of array elements
  • kron — Kronecker product (.*.)
  • prod — product of array elements
  • sum — sum of array elements
  • tril — lower triangular part of matrix
  • triu — upper triangle
• Search and sort
  • dsearch — search in ordered sets
  • gsort — sorting by quick sort agorithm
  • lex_sort — lexicographic matrix rows sorting
  • vectorfind — finds in a matrix rows or columns matching a vector
• Set operations
  • intersect — returns the vector of common values of two vectors
  • setdiff — returns components of a vector which do not belong to another one
  • union — extract union components of a vector
  • unique — extract unique components of a vector or matrices
• Signal processing
  • bloc2exp — block-diagram to symbolic expression
  • bloc2ss — block-diagram to state-space conversion
  • pen2ea — pencil to E,A conversion
  • ssrand — random system generator
  • sysconv — system conversion
  • sysdiag — block diagonal system connection
  • syslin — linear system definition
  • trfmod — poles and zeros display
• Symbolic
  • solve — symbolic linear system solver
  • trianfml — symbolic triangularization
  • trisolve — symbolic linear system solver
• Trigonometry
  • acos — element wise cosine inverse
  • acosd — element wise cosine inverse, result in degree.
  • acosh — hyperbolic cosine inverse
  • acoshm — matrix hyperbolic inverse cosine
  • acosm — matrix wise cosine inverse
  • acot — computes the element-wise inverse cotangeant of the argument.
  • acotd — computes the element-wise inverse cotangeant of the argument result in degree.
  • acoth — element wise hyperbolic cotangeant inverse.
  • acsc — computes the element-wise inverse cosecant of the argument.
  • acscd — computes the element-wise inverse cosecant of the argument, results in degree.
  • acsch — computes the element-wise inverse hyperbolic cosecant of the argument.
  • asec — computes the element-wise inverse secant of the argument.
  • asecd — computes the element-wise inverse secant of the argument, results in degree.
  • asech — computes the element-wise inverse hyperbolic secant of the argument.
  • asin — sine inverse
  • asind — sine inverse, results in degree
  • asinh — hyperbolic sine inverse
  • asinhm — matrix hyperbolic inverse sine
  • asinm — matrix wise sine inverse
  • atan — 2-quadrant and 4-quadrant inverse tangent
  • atand — 2-quadrant and 4-quadrant element-wise inverse tangent, result in degree.
  • atanh — hyperbolic tangent inverse
  • atanhm — matrix hyperbolic tangent inverse
  • atanm — square matrix tangent inverse
  • conj — conjugate
  • cos — cosine function
  • cosd — element-wise cosine function, argument in degree
  • cosh — hyperbolic cosine
  • coshm — matrix hyperbolic cosine
  • cosm — matrix cosine function
  • cotd — cotangent
  • cotg — cotangent
  • coth — hyperbolic cotangent
  • cothm — matrix hyperbolic cotangent
  • csc — Computes the element-wise cosecant of the argument.
  • cscd — Computes the element-wise cosecant of the argument given in degree.
  • csch — Computes the element-wise hyperbolic cosecant of the argument.
  • csgn — Returns the sign of a vector of real of complex values.
  • sec — Compute the element-wise secant of the argument.
  • secd — Compute the element-wise secant of the argument given in degree.
  • sech — Compute the element-wise hyperbolic secant of the argument.
  • sin — sine function
  • sinc — sinc function
  • sind — sine function, argument in degree.
  • sinh — hyperbolic sine
  • sinhm — matrix hyperbolic sine
  • sinm — matrix sine function
  • tan — tangent
  • tand — tangent, argument in degree.
  • tanh — hyperbolic tangent
  • tanhm — matrix hyperbolic tangent
  • tanm — matrix tangent
• abs — absolute value, magnitude
• amell — Jacobi's am function
• and — logical and of the elements of an array
• and_op — logical and operator
• cat — concatenate several arrays
• cell2mat — convert a cell array into a matrix
• cellstr — convert strings vector (or strings matrix) into a cell of strings
• char — char function
• delip — complete and incomplete elliptic integral of first kind
• diff — Difference and discrete derivative
• exp — element-wise exponential
• imag — imaginary part
• imult — multiplication by i the imaginary unitary
• inttrap — integration of experimental data by trapezoidal interpolation
• isdef — checks variable existence
• isempty — check if a variable is an empty matrix or an empty list
• isequal — objects comparison
• isequalbitwise — bitwise comparison of variables
• isreal — check if a variable as real or complex entries
• isvector — check if a variable is a vector
• log — natural logarithm
• log10 — logarithm
• log1p — computes with accuracy the natural logarithm of its argument added by one
• log2 — base 2 logarithm
• logm — square matrix logarithm
• lstsize — list, tlist, mlist numbers of entries
• max — maximum
• min — minimum
• modulo — positive arithmetic remainder modulo m
• ndims — number of dimensions of an array
• norm — matrix norms
• or — logical or of the elements of an array
• or_op — logical or operator
• pertrans — pertranspose
• real — real part
• sign — sign function
• signm — matrix sign function
• size — size of objects
• sqrt — square root
• sqrtm — matrix square root
• squarewave — generates a square wave with period 2*%pi
• toeplitz — toeplitz matrix
• typeof — object type

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