Glossary - A Guide to MATLAB for Beginners and Experienced Users - page 301

: Rangeoperator,usedfordefiningvectorsandmatrices.Type help colon formore
information.

' Complex conjugate transpose of a matrix. See ctranspose . Also delimits the
beginning and end of a string.

; SuppressesoutputofaMATLABcommand,andcanbeusedtoseparatecommands
on a command line. Also used to separate the rows of a matrix or column vector.

X = 0:0.1:30;
[1; 2; 3]

, Separates elements of a row of a matrix, or arguments to a command. Can also be
used to separate commands on a command line.

.' Transpose of a matrix. See transpose .

... Line continuation operator. Cannot be used inside quoted strings. Type help
punct for more information.
1+3+5+7+9+11...
+13+15+17
['This is a way to create very long strings ', ...
'that span more than one line. Note the square brackets.']

! Run command from operating system.
!C: \ Programs \ program.bat

% Comment. MATLAB will ignore the rest of the same line.
@ Creates a function handle.
fminbnd(@cos, 0, 2*pi)

Built-in Constants

eps Roughly the size of the computer's floating point round-off error; on most
computers it is around 2 10 − 16 .

×

exp(1) e

= 2 . 71828 ... . Note that e has no special meaning.

= √ −

i i

1. This assignment can be overridden, for example, if you want to use i as
an index in a for loop. In that case j can be used for the imaginary unit.

Inf ∞

. Also inf (in lower-case letters).

NaN Not a number. Used for indeterminate expressions suchas 0

/ 0.

π = 3 . 14159 ....

pi