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and
logical AND between the elements of a boolean or numerical array
Syntax
b = and(A) b = and(A, 'r') b = and(A, 'c') b = and(A, n)
Arguments
- A
- vector, matrix, or hypermatrix of booleans, encoded integers (of any inttype), real, or complex numbers. - Amay be sparse-encoded.- A number is considered as %F (false) if it is 0 or 0+0i. Otherwise (including %nan), it is equivalent to %T (true).  Special Special- A:- and([])returns- %T.
- and(%nan)returns- %T.
 
- b
- boolean scalar, if - and(A)is used without any option- "r", "c", n. Then- and(A)sets- bto- %F, if at least one of A's components is %F or zero.
- %T, otherwise: All Acomponents are %T or non zero or %nan.
 - Otherwise: boolean vector, matrix or hypermatrix. See - nbelow.- When - Ais sparse-encoded,- bis so as well.
- %F, if at least one of 
- n
- Index <= ndims(A) of the dimension along which - and()is applied / projected. By default,- and()is applied between all- A's elements. Otherwise:- n = 1 | "r" : and()is applied row-wise. IfAis a matrix, the resultbis a row, withb(j) = and(A(:,j))
- n = 2 | "c" :
                                and()is applied column-wise. IfAis a matrix, the resultbis a column, withb(i) = and(A(i,:))
- n > 2 : If Ais an hypermatrix with at leastndimensions,and()is applied accross the nth dimension.Example: If ndims(A)==3andn=3,bis a boolean matrix of size size(A)([1 2]), withb(i,j) = and(A(i,j,:))
 
- n = 1 | "r" : 
Description
and() computes a logical AND between
            the components of the single input A.
To compute AND in an element-wise way between two arrays
            C and D of same sizes, please
            use the & operator instead.
Why is and([]) set to %T ?
            Whatever are compatible B and C,
            and([B C])==(and(B) & and(C)).
            Now, for B = [], and([B C])==and(C).
            To have always (and([]) & and(C))==and(C),
            and([]) must be %T.
Examples
and([]) and(0) and(0+0*%i) and(%eps) and(%i) and(%nan) // Projection accross a dimension / along a direction: A = rand(2,5)<0.5 and(A) and(A, "r") // and(A, 1) does the same and(A, "c") // and(A, 2) does the same // Equivalent application to encoded integers: A = int16(grand(3,5,"uin",-10,10)); A(abs(A)<3) = 0 and(A) and(A,1) // With an hypermatrix of decimal numbers: A = rand(3,4,2); A(A<0.2) = 0 and(A,3) // With a sparse matrix: A = sprand(70,100, 0.001) and(A, "r") and(A, "c")
--> and([]) ans = T --> and(0) ans = F --> and(0+0*%i) ans = F --> and(%eps) ans = T --> and(%i) ans = T --> and(%nan) ans = T --> // Projection accross a dimension / along a direction: --> A = rand(2,5)<0.5 A = T T F F F F T F F T --> and(A) ans = F --> and(A, "r") // and(A, 1) does the same ans = F T F F F --> and(A, "c") // and(A, 2) does the same ans = F F --> // Equivalent application to encoded integers: --> A = int16(grand(3,5,"uin",-10,10)); --> A(abs(A)<3) = 0 A = 0 0 -8 -6 8 -10 6 -5 3 -10 0 3 -10 7 10 --> and(A) ans = F --> and(A,1) ans = F F T T T --> // With an hypermatrix of decimal numbers: --> A = rand(3,4,2); --> A(A<0.2) = 0 A = (:,:,1) 0.4052 0.4819 0.2806 0.2119 0.9185 0.264 0. 0. 0. 0.4148 0.7783 0.6857 (:,:,2) 0. 0.4062 0. 0.5896 0.6971 0.4095 0. 0.6854 0.8416 0.8784 0.5619 0.8906 --> and(A,3) ans = F T F T T T F F F T T T --> // With a sparse matrix: --> A = sprand(70,100, 0.001) A = ( 70, 100) sparse matrix ( 4, 87) 0.6463 ( 5, 39) 0.4898 ( 7, 92) 0.7094 ( 29, 87) 0.794 ( 33, 1) 0.4087 ( 36, 79) 0.4876 ( 54, 65) 0.4456 ( 67, 45) 0.458 --> and(A, "r") ans = ( 1, 100)False sparse matrix --> and(A, "c") ans = ( 70, 1)False sparse matrix
See also
- & (element-wise) — Binary AND between integers. Logical AND over/between booleans and numbers
- or — logical OR over the elements of a boolean or numerical array
- not — (~) logical not
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