MATLAB Users' Guide
May, 1981
Cleve Moler
Department of Computer Science
University of New Mexico
ABSTRACT. MATLAB is an interactive computer program
that serves as a convenient "laboratory" for
computations involving matrices. It provides easy
access to matrix software developed by the LINPACK and
EISPACK projects. The program is written in Fortran
and is designed to be readily installed under any
operating system which permits interactive execution of
Fortran programs.
CONTENTS
1. Elementary operations page 2
2. MATLAB functions 8
3. Rows, columns and submatrices 9
4. FOR, WHILE and IF 10
5. Commands, text, files and macros 12
6. Census example 13
7. Partial differential equation 19
8. Eigenvalue sensitivity example 23
9. Syntax diagrams 27
10. The parser-interpreter 31
11. The numerical algorithms 34
12. FLOP and CHOP 37
13. Communicating with other programs 41
Appendix. The HELP file 46