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- MATLAB stands for MATrix LABoratory. It is a FORTRAN package developed by
- Argonne National Laboratories for in-house use. It provides comprehensive
- vector and tensor operations in a package which may be programmed, either
- through a macro language or through execution of script files.
-
- Matlab is reentrant and recursive. Functions supported include (but not
- by any means limited to) sin, cos, tan, arcfunctions, upper triangular,
- lower triangular, determinants, matrix multiplication, identity, hilbert
- matrices, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, matrix roots and products, inversion
- and so on and so forth.
-
- The file available on the bulletin board as Matlab.arc contains an Amiga-ized
- executable copy of MATLAB and the online help file, as well as this intro.
-
- If you want the source code (over 300K) and a manual, or if your bulletin
- board only has this message and not the package, send $5.00 and a 3.5"
- disk to:
-
- Jim Locker
- 4443 N. Hyland Ave.
- Dayton, Oh 45424
-
- The package is public domain, but of course postage and reproduction cost
- money. Believe me, this package is a bargain at the price. Please feel free
- to distribute the package.
-
- The source was taken off a VAX 11/780. It ran without modification (except the
- file handler and some minor error handling) on an Amiga 1000 using ABSoft
- Fortran v2.2. It will run in 512K environment. I have seen it on IBM
- mainframes and IBM PCs.
-
- ********************** A Sample Session ***********************************
-
- For this session the <> character is the MATLAB prompt.
-
- <> a=<1 2 3;5 4 6;7 8 9> <--- you enter this
-
- A = <--- MATLAB response
-
- 1. 2. 3.
- 5. 4. 6.
- 7. 8. 9.
-
- <> b=<5;6;7> <--- you enter this
-
- B = <--- MATLAB response
-
- 5.
- 6.
- 7.
-
- <> a*b <--- you enter "multiply a and b"
-
- ANS = <--- MATLAB response
-
- 38.
- 91.
- 146.
-
- <> b*a <---you enter "multiply b and a"
- /--ERROR <--- MATLAB response
- INCOMPATIBLE FOR MULTIPLICATION
-
- <> det(a) <--- Take the determinant of a
-
- ANS = <---MATLAB response
-
- 18.
-
- <> exit <--- you quit MATLAB
-
- total flops 34
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- ADIOS
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