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Elementary Functions

  • Bitwise operations
  • Complex
    • complexCreate a complex number.
    • conjComplex conjugate
    • imagimaginary part
    • imultmultiplication by i the imaginary unitary
    • isrealcheck if a variable has real or complex entries
    • realreal part
  • Discrete mathematics
    • binomialbinomial distribution probabilities
    • factorfactor function
    • factorialThe factorial function
    • gcdGreatest Common Divisor
    • lcmleast common multiple
    • permsall permutations of vector components
    • primesprimes function
    • ratFloating point rational approximation
  • Elementary matrices
    • diagdiagonal including or extracting
    • eyeidentity matrix
    • ind2sublinear index to matrix subscript values
    • linspacelinearly spaced vector
    • logspacelogarithmically spaced vector
    • meshgridcreate matrices or 3-D arrays
    • ndgridarrays for multidimensional function evaluation on grid
    • onesmatrix made of ones
    • randRandom numbers
    • squarewavegenerates a square wave with period 2*%pi
    • sub2indmatrix subscript values to linear index
    • toeplitzToeplitz matrix
    • zerosmatrix made of zeros
  • Log - exp - power
    • expelement-wise exponential
    • expmsquare matrix exponential
    • lognatural logarithm
    • log10base 10 logarithm
    • log1pcomputes with accuracy the natural logarithm of its argument added by one
    • log2base 2 logarithm
    • logmsquare matrix logarithm
    • polarpolar form
    • sqrtsquare root
    • sqrtmmatrix square root
  • Floating point
    • ceilround up
    • cleancleans matrices (round to zero small entries)
    • doubleconversion from integer to double precision representation
    • fixround towards zero
    • floorround down
    • formatnumber printing and display format
    • frexpdissect floating-point numbers into base 2 exponent and mantissa
    • ieeeset floating point exception mode
    • intround towards zero
    • isinfcheck for infinite entries
    • isnancheck for "Not a Number" entries
    • nearfloatget previous or next floating-point number
    • nextpow2next higher power of 2.
    • number_propertiesdetermine floating-point parameters
    • roundround to nearest integer
  • Radix conversions
    • base2decconvert from base b to decimal
    • bin2decconvert from binary to decimal
    • dec2baseConvert decimal to base N number in string
    • dec2binconvert from decimal to binary
    • dec2hexconvert from decimal to hexadecimal
    • dec2octconvert from decimal to octal
    • hex2decconvert from hexadecimal to decimal
    • oct2decconvert from octal to decimal
  • Matrix manipulation
    • flipdimflip x components along a given dimension
    • matrixreshape a vector or a matrix to a different size matrix
    • permutepermute the dimensions of an array
    • pertranssimultaneous permutation and transposition
    • repmatReplicate and tile an array
    • resize_matrixcreate a new matrix with a different size
    • squeezeremoves singleton dimensions of a hypermatrix
  • Matrix operations
    • absabsolute value, magnitude
    • cumprodcumulative product of array elements
    • cumsumcumulative sum of array elements
    • kronKronecker product (.*.)
    • maxmaximum
    • minminimum
    • normmatrix norm
    • prodproduct of array elements
    • signmmatrix signum function
    • sumsum of array elements
    • trillower triangular part of matrix
    • triuupper triangle
  • Search and sort
    • dsearchsearch in ordered sets
    • gsortsorting by quick sort algorithm
    • lex_sortlexicographic matrix rows sorting
    • vectorfindfinds in a matrix rows or columns matching a vector
  • Set operations
    • intersectreturns the vector of common values of two vectors
    • setdiffreturns components of a vector which do not belong to another one
    • unionextract union components of a vector
    • uniqueextract unique components of a vector or matrices
  • Signal processing
    • bloc2expConversion of a block-diagram to its symbolic expression
    • bloc2ssblock-diagram to state-space conversion
    • pen2eapencil to E,A conversion
    • ssrandrandom system generator
    • sysconvsystem conversion
    • sysdiagblock diagonal system connection
    • syslinlinear system definition
    • trfmodpoles and zeros display
  • Symbolic
    • addfsymbolic addition
    • cmb_linsymbolic linear combination
    • ldivfleft symbolic division
    • mulfsymbolic multiplication
    • rdivfright symbolic division
    • solvesymbolic linear system solver
    • subfsymbolic subtraction
    • trianfmlsymbolic triangularization
    • trisolvesymbolic linear system solver
  • Trigonometry
    • acoselement wise cosine inverse (radians)
    • acosdelement wise cosine inverse, result in degree.
    • acoshhyperbolic cosine inverse
    • acoshmmatrix hyperbolic inverse cosine
    • acosmmatrix wise cosine inverse
    • acotcomputes the element-wise inverse cotangeant of the argument.
    • acotdcomputes the element-wise inverse cotangeant of the argument, result in degree.
    • acothelement wise hyperbolic cotangeant inverse.
    • acsccomputes the element-wise inverse cosecant of the argument.
    • acscdcomputes the element-wise inverse cosecant of the argument, results in degree.
    • acschcomputes the element-wise inverse hyperbolic cosecant of the argument.
    • aseccomputes the element-wise inverse secant of the argument.
    • asecdcomputes the element-wise inverse secant of the argument, results in degree.
    • asechcomputes the element-wise inverse hyperbolic secant of the argument.
    • asinsine inverse (radians)
    • asindsine inverse, results in degree
    • asinhhyperbolic sine inverse
    • asinhmmatrix hyperbolic inverse sine
    • asinmmatrix wise sine inverse
    • atan2-quadrant and 4-quadrant inverse tangent
    • atand2-quadrant and 4-quadrant element-wise inverse tangent, result in degree
    • atanhhyperbolic tangent inverse
    • atanhmmatrix hyperbolic tangent inverse
    • atanmsquare matrix tangent inverse
    • coscosine function
    • cosdelement-wise cosine function, argument in degree
    • coshhyperbolic cosine
    • coshmmatrix hyperbolic cosine
    • cosmmatrix cosine function
    • cotdelement-wise cotangent function, argument in degree
    • cotgcotangent
    • cothhyperbolic cotangent
    • cothmmatrix hyperbolic cotangent
    • cscсomputes the element-wise cosecant of the argument
    • cscdсomputes the element-wise cosecant of the argument given in degree
    • cschComputes the element-wise hyperbolic cosecant of the argument.
    • csgnreturns the sign of a vector of real of complex values
    • seccomputes the element-wise secant of the argument
    • secdcomputes the element-wise secant of the argument given in degree
    • sechcomputes the element-wise hyperbolic secant of the argument
    • sinsine function
    • sincsinc function
    • sindsine function, argument in degree.
    • sinhhyperbolic sine
    • sinhmmatrix hyperbolic sine
    • sinmmatrix sine function
    • tantangent
    • tandtangent, argument in degree.
    • tanhhyperbolic tangent
    • tanhmmatrix hyperbolic tangent
    • tanmmatrix tangent
  • andlogical AND of the elements of an array
  • and_oplogical AND operator
  • catconcatenate several arrays
  • cell2matconverts a cell array into a matrix
  • cellstrconverts strings vector (or strings matrix) into a cell array of strings
  • isemptycheck if a variable is an empty matrix or an empty list
  • isequalobjects comparison
  • isvectorcheck if a variable is a vector
  • lstsizelist, tlist, mlist numbers of entries
  • modulopositive arithmetic remainder modulo m
  • ndimsnumber of dimensions of an array
  • nthrootReal nth root of real numbers
  • orlogical OR of the elements of an array
  • or_oplogical OR operator
  • signsignum function
  • sizesize of objects
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