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1-norm <1> <2>
2-norm (estimate of)
abs
absolute accuracy
BVP
DDE
ODE
absolute value
Accelerator
Uimenu property
accumarray
accuracy
of linear equation solution
of matrix inversion
acos
acosd
acosh
acot
acotd
acoth
acsc
acscd
acsch
activelegend
Adams-Bashforth-Moulton ODE solver
addframe
AVI files
addition (arithmetic operator)
addpath
addpref function
addressing selected array elements
addtodate
adjacency graph
airy
Airy functions
relationship to modified Bessel functions
aligning scattered data
multi-dimensional
two-dimensional
ALim, Axes property 1692
all
allchild function
allocation of storage (automatic)
alpha channels
in PNG files
AlphaData
image property
surface property 1916
surfaceplot property
AlphaDataMapping
image property
patch property 1860
surface property 1916
surfaceplot property
AmbientLightColor, Axes property 1693
AmbientStrength
Patch property 1860
Surface property 1917
surfaceplot property
analytical partial derivatives (BVP)
and
and (M-file function equivalent for &)
AND, logical
bit-wise
angle
annotating plots
ans
anti-diagonal
any
arccosecant
arccosine
arccotangent
arcsecant
arcsine
arctangent
four-quadrant
arguments, M-file
checking number of inputs
checking number of outputs
number of input
number of output
passing variable numbers of
arithmetic operations, matrix and array distinguished
arithmetic operators
reference
array
addressing selected elements of
displaying
finding indices of
left division (arithmetic operator)
maximum elements of
mean elements of
median elements of
minimum elements of
multiplication (arithmetic operator)
of all ones
power (arithmetic operator)
product of elements
of random numbers <1> <2>
removing first n singleton dimensions of
removing singleton dimensions of
reshaping
right division (arithmetic operator)
shift circularly
shifting dimensions of
size of
sorting elements of
structure <1> <2> <3> <4>
sum of elements
swapping dimensions of <1> <2>
transpose (arithmetic operator)
of all zeros
arrays
detecting empty
editing
maximum size of
opening
arrowhead matrix
ASCII
delimited files
writing
ASCII data
converting sparse matrix after loading from
printable characters (list of)
reading
reading from disk
saving to disk
asec
asecd
asech
asin
asind
asinh
aspect ratio of axes <1> <2>
assignin
atan
atan2
atand
atanh
.au files
reading
writing
audio
saving in AVI format
signal conversion <1> <2>
audioplayer
audiorecorder
aufinfo
auread
AutoScale
quivergroup property
AutoScaleFactor
quivergroup property
autoselection of OpenGL 1771
auwrite
average of array elements
average,running
avi
avifile
aviinfo
aviread
Axes
creating 1687
defining default properties 1691
fixed-width font 1701
property descriptions 1692
axes
setting and querying data aspect ratio
setting and querying limits
setting and querying plot box aspect ratio
axes 1687
editing
axis
axis crossing See zero of a function
azimuth (spherical coordinates)
azimuth of viewpoint
BackFaceLighting
Surface property 1917
surfaceplot property
BackFaceLightingpatch property 1861
background color chunk
PNG files
BackGroundColor
Uicontrol property
BackgroundColor
annotation textbox property
Text property 1935
BackingStore, Figure property 1751
badly conditioned
balance
bar3
bar3h
BarLayout
barseries property
BarWidth
barseries property
base to decimal conversion
base two operations
conversion from decimal to binary
logarithm
next power of two
base2dec
BaseLine
barseries property
stem property
BaseValue
area property
barseries property
stem property
beep
BeingDeleted
areaseries property
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
group property <1> <2> <3>
hggroup property 1797
hgtransform property 1809
light property 1821
line property 1832
lineseries property
quivergroup property
rectangle property 1888
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
surface property 1917
surfaceplot property
transform property 1861
Uipushtool property
Uitoggletool property
Uitoolbar property
Bessel functions
first kind
modified, first kind
modified, second kind
second kind
Bessel functions, modified
relationship to Airy functions
Bessel's equation
(defined)
modified (defined)
besseli
besselj
besselk
bessely
beta
beta function
(defined)
incomplete (defined)
natural logarithm
betainc
betaln
bicg
bicgstab
BiConjugate Gradients method
BiConjugate Gradients Stabilized method
big endian formats <1> <2>
bin2dec
binary
data
writing to file
files
reading
mode for opened files
binary data
reading from disk
saving to disk
binary to decimal conversion
bisection search
bit depth
querying
bit depths
See also index entries for individual file formats
supported
bitand
bitcmp
bitget
bitmaps
reading
writing
bitmax
bitor
bitset
bitshift
bit-wise operations
AND
get
OR
set bit
shift
XOR
bitxor
blanks
removing trailing
blanks
blkdiag
BMP files
reading
writing
bold font
TeX characters 1951
box
Box, Axes property 1693
braces, curly (special characters)
brackets (special characters)
break
breakpoints
listing
removing
resuming execution from
setting in M-files <1> <2>
brighten
browser
for help
bubble plot (scatter function)
Buckminster Fuller
builtin
BusyAction
areaseries property
Axes property 1693
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
Figure property 1752
hggroup property 1797
hgtransform property 1809
Image property
Light property 1821
Line property <1> <2>
patch property 1861
quivergroup property
rectangle property 1888
Root property 1897
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
Surface property 1918
surfaceplot property
Text property 1936
Uicontextmenu property
Uicontrol property
Uimenu property
Uipushtool property
Uitoggletool property
Uitoolbar property
ButtonDownFcn
area series property
Axes property 1694
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
Figure property 1752
hggroup property 1798
hgtransform property 1810
Image property
Light property 1822
Line property 1833
lineseries property
patch property 1862
quivergroup property
rectangle property 1889
Root property 1897
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
Surface property 1918
surfaceplot property
Text property 1937
Uicontextmenu property
Uicontrol property
BVP solver properties
analytical partial derivatives
error tolerance
Jacobian matrix
mesh
singular BVPs
solution statistics
vectorization
bvp4c
bvpget
bvpinit
bvpset
bvpval
caching
MATLAB directory
calendar
CallBack
Uicontextmenu property
Uicontrol property
Uimenu property
CallbackObject, Root property 1897
camdolly
camera
dollying position
moving camera and target postions
placing a light at
positioning to view objects
rotating around camera target <1> <2>
rotating around viewing axis
setting and querying position
setting and querying projection type
setting and querying target
setting and querying up vector
setting and querying view angle
CameraPosition, Axes property 1694
CameraPositionMode, Axes property 1694
CameraTarget, Axes property 1695
CameraTargetMode, Axes property 1695
CameraUpVector, Axes property 1695
CameraUpVectorMode, Axes property 1695
CameraViewAngle, Axes property 1695
CameraViewAngleMode, Axes property 1695
camlight
camlookat
camorbit
campan
campos
camproj
camroll
camtarget
camup
camva
camzoom
CaptureMatrix, Root property 1897
CaptureRect, Root property 1897
cart2pol
cart2sph
Cartesian coordinates <1> <2> <3> <4>
case
in switch statement (defined)
lower to upper
upper to lower
case
cast
cat
catch
caxis
Cayley-Hamilton theorem
cd
cd (ftp)
CData
Image property
scatter property
Surface property 1918
surfaceplot property
Uicontrol property
Uipushtool property
Uitoggletool property
CDataMapping
Image property
patch property 1864
Surface property 1919
surfaceplot property
CDataMode
surfaceplot property
CDatapatch property 1862
CDataSource
scatter property
surfaceplot property
cdf2rdf
cdfepoch
cdfinfo
cdfread
cdfwrite
ceil
cell
cell array
conversion to from numeric array
creating
structure of, displaying
cell2mat
cell2struct
celldisp
cellfun
cellplot
cgs
char
characters
conversion, in format specification string <1> <2>
escape, in format specification string <1> <2>
check boxes
Checked, Uimenu property
checkerboard pattern (example)
checkin
examples
options
checkout
examples
options
child functions
Children
areaseries property
Axes property 1696
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
Figure property 1753
hggroup property 1798
hgtransform property 1810
Image property
Light property 1822
Line property 1833
lineseries property
patch property 1865
quivergroup property
rectangle property 1889
Root property 1897
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
Surface property 1919
surfaceplot property
Text property 1937
Uicontextmenu property
Uicontrol property
Uimenu property
Uitoolbar property
chol
Cholesky factorization
(as algorithm for solving linear equations)
lower triangular factor
minimum degree ordering and (sparse)
preordering for
cholinc
cholupdate
circshift
cla
clabel
class
class, object See object classes
classes
field names
loaded
clc <1> <2>
clear
clearing
Command Window
items from workspace
Java import list
clf
ClickedCallback
Uipushtool property
Uitoggletool property
CLim, Axes property 1697
CLimMode, Axes property 1697
clipboard
Clipping
areaseries property
Axes property 1697
barseries property
contour property
errrobar property
Figure property 1753
hggroup property 1798
hgtransform property 1810
Image property
Light property 1822
Line property 1833
lineseries property
quivergroup property
rectangle property 1889
Root property 1897, 1898 <1> <2>
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
Surface property 1919
surfaceplot property
Text property 1937
Uicontextmenu property
Uicontrol property
Clippingpatch property 1865
clock
close
AVI files
CloseRequestFcn, Figure property 1753
closest point search
closest triangle search
closing
files
MATLAB
cmapeditor
cmopts
colamd
colmmd
colon operator
Color
annotation arrow property
annotation doublearrow property
annotation line property
annotation textarrow property
annotation textbox property
Axes property 1697
errorbar property
Figure property 1755
Light property 1822
Line property 1833
lineseries property
quivergroup property
stairseries property
stem property
Text property 1937
colorbar
colormap
editor
colormap
Colormap, Figure property 1755
colormaps
converting from RGB to HSV
plotting RGB components
ColorOrder, Axes property 1697
ColorSpec
colperm
COM
object methods
inspect
ismethod
isprop
combinations of n elements
combs
comet
comet3
comma (special characters)
command syntax
Command Window
clearing
cursor position
get width
commandhistory
commands
help for <1> <2>
system
UNIX
commandwindow
common elements See set operations, intersection
compan
companion matrix
compass
complementary error function
(defined)
scaled (defined)
complete elliptic integral
(defined)
modulus of <1> <2>
complex
exponential (defined)
logarithm <1> <2>
numbers
numbers, sorting <1> <2>
phase angle
sine
unitary matrix
See also imaginary
complex
complex conjugate
sorting pairs of
complex data
creating
complex numbers, magnitude
complex Schur form
compression
lossy
computer
computer MATLAB is running on
concatenation
of arrays
cond
condeig
condest
condition number of matrix <1> <2>
improving
coneplot
conj
conjugate, complex
sorting pairs of
connecting to FTP server
contents.m file
context menu
continuation (..., special characters)
continue
continued fraction expansion
contour
and mesh plot 1730
filled plot 1724
functions 1721
of mathematical expression 1722
with surface plot 1746
contour3
contourc
contourf
ContourMatrix
contour property
contours
in slice planes
contourslice
contrast
conv
conv2
conversion
base to decimal
binary to decimal
Cartesian to cylindrical
Cartesian to polar
complex diagonal to real block diagonal
cylindrical to Cartesian
decimal number to base <1> <2>
decimal to binary
decimal to hexadecimal
full to sparse
hexadecimal to decimal
integer to string
lowercase to uppercase
matrix to string
numeric array to cell array
numeric array to logical array
numeric array to string
partial fraction expansion to pole-residue
polar to Cartesian
pole-residue to partial fraction expansion
real to complex Schur form
spherical to Cartesian
string matrix to cell array
string to numeric array
uppercase to lowercase
vector to character string
conversion characters in format specification string <1> <2>
convex hulls
multidimensional vizualization
two-dimensional vizualization
convhull
convhulln
convn
convolution
inverse See deconvolution
two-dimensional
coordinate system and viewpoint
coordinates
Cartesian <1> <2> <3> <4>
cylindrical <1> <2> <3>
polar <1> <2> <3>
spherical
coordinates.See also conversion
copyfile
copyobj 1716
corrcoef
cos
cosd
cosecant
hyperbolic
inverse
inverse hyperbolic
cosh
cosine
hyperbolic
inverse
inverse hyperbolic
cot
cotangent
hyperbolic
inverse
inverse hyperbolic
cotd
coth
cov
cplxpair
cputime
CreateFcn
areaseries property
Axes property 1698
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
Figure property 1755
group property 1810
hggroup property 1798
Image property
Light property 1822
Line property 1833
lineseries property
patch property 1865
quivergroup property
rectangle property 1889
Root property 1898
scatter property
stairseries property
stemseries property
Surface property 1919
surfaceplot property
Text property 1937
Uicontextmenu property
Uicontrol property
Uimenu property
Uipushtool property
Uitoggletool property
Uitoolbar property
creating your own MATLAB functions
cross
cross product
csc
cscd
csch
csvread
csvwrite
ctranspose (M-file function equivalent for ')
cubic interpolation <1> <2>
piecewise Hermite
cubic spline interpolation
multidimensional
one-dimensional
three-dimensional
two-dimensional
cumprod
cumsum
cumtrapz
cumulative
product
sum
CUR files
reading
curl
curly braces (special characters)
current directory
changing
CurrentAxes 1755
CurrentAxes, Figure property 1756
CurrentCharacter, Figure property 1756
CurrentFigure, Root property 1898
CurrentMenu, Figure property (obsolete) 1756
CurrentObject, Figure property 1756
CurrentPoint
Axes property 1698
Figure property 1756
cursor images
reading
cursor position
Curvature, rectangle property 1890
curve fitting (polynomial)
customverctrl
Cuthill-McKee ordering, reverse <1> <2>
cylinder
cylindrical coordinates <1> <2> <3>
daspect
data
ASCII
reading from disk
ASCII, saving to disk
binary
writing to file
binary, saving to disk
computing 2-D stream lines
computing 3-D stream lines
formatted
reading from files
writing to file
formatting <1> <2>
isosurface from volume data
reading binary from disk
reading from files
reducing number of elements in
smoothing 3-D
writing to strings
data aspect ratio of axes
data types
complex
data, aligning scattered
multi-dimensional
two-dimensional
data, ASCII
converting sparse matrix after loading from
DataAspectRatio, Axes property 1699
DataAspectRatioMode, Axes property 1700
datatipinfo
date
date and time functions
date string
format of
date vector
datenum
datestr
datevec
dbclear
dbcont
dbdown
dblquad
dbmex
dbquit
dbstack
dbstatus
dbstep
dbstop
dbtype
dbup
DDE solver properties
error tolerance
event location
solver output
step size
dde23
ddeget
ddephas2 output function
ddephas3 output function
ddeplot output function
ddeprint output function
ddeset
deal
deblank
debugging
changing workspace context
changing workspace to calling M-file
displaying function call stack
MEX-files on UNIX
M-files <1> <2>
removing breakpoints
resuming execution from breakpoint
setting breakpoints in <1> <2>
stepping through lines
dec2base <1> <2>
dec2bin
dec2hex
decic function
decimal number to base conversion <1> <2>
decimal point (.)
(special characters)
to distinguish matrix and array operations
decomposition
Dulmage-Mendelsohn
"economy-size" <1> <2>
orthogonal-triangular (QR)
Schur
singular value <1> <2>
deconv
deconvolution
definite integral
del operator
del2
delaunay
Delaunay tessellation
3-dimensional vizualization
multidimensional vizualization
Delaunay triangulation
vizualization
delaunay3
delaunayn
delete
delete
timer object
delete (ftp)
DeleteFcn
areaseries property
Axes property 1700
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
Figure property 1758
hggroup property 1799
hgtransform property 1811
Image property
Light property 1822
lineseries property
quivergroup property
Root property 1898
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
Surface property 1920
surfaceplot property
Text property 1938, 1939 <1> <2>
Uicontextmenu property <1> <2>
Uimenu property
Uipushtool property
Uitoggletool property
Uitoolbar property
DeleteFcn, line property 1834
DeleteFcn, rectangle property 1890
DeleteFcnpatch property 1865
deleting
files
items from workspace
delimiters in ASCII files <1> <2>
demo
density
of sparse matrix
depdir
dependence, linear
dependent functions
depfun
derivative
approximate
polynomial
det
Detect
detecting
alphabetic characters
empty arrays
finite numbers
global variables
infinite elements
logical arrays
members of a set
NaNs
objects of a given class
positive, negative, and zero array elements
prime numbers
real numbers
sparse matrix
determinant of a matrix
detrend
deval
diag
diagonal
anti-
k-th (illustration)
main
sparse
dialog
dialog box
error
help
input
list
message
print
question
warning
diary
Diary, Root property 1898
DiaryFile, Root property 1898
diff
differences
between adjacent array elements
between sets
differential equation solvers
defining an ODE problem
ODE boundary value problems
adjusting parameters
extracting properties
extracting properties of <1> <2> <3> <4>
forming initial guess
ODE initial value problems
adjusting parameters of
extracting properties of
parabolic-elliptic PDE problems
DiffuseStrength
Surface property 1920
surfaceplot property
DiffuseStrengthpatch property 1866
digamma function
dimension statement (lack of in MATLAB)
dimensions
size of
Diophantine equations
dir
dir (ftp)
direct term of a partial fraction expansion
directories
adding to search path
checking existence of
copying
creating
listing contents of
listing MATLAB files in
listing, on UNIX
MATLAB
caching
removing
removing from search path
See also directory, search path
directory
changing on FTP server
listing for FTP server
making on FTP server
MATLAB location
root
temporary system
See also directories
directory, changing
directory, current
disconnect
discontinuities, eliminating (in arrays of phase angles)
discontinuities, plotting functions with 1743
discontinuous problems
disp
disp
memmapfile object
timer object
display
display format
displaying output in Command Window
DisplayName
areaseries property
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
lineseries property
quivergroup property
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
distribution
Gaussian
Dithermap 1758
DithermapMode, Figure property 1758
division
array, left (arithmetic operator)
array, right (arithmetic operator)
by zero
matrix, left (arithmetic operator)
matrix, right (arithmetic operator)
of polynomials
divisor
greatest common
dlmread
dlmwrite
dmperm
Dockable, Figure property 1758
docsearch
documentation
displaying online
dolly camera
dos
dot
dot product <1> <2>
double
double click, detecting 1773
double integral
numerical evaluation
DoubleBuffer, Figure property 1758
downloading files from FTP server
dragrect 1719
DrawMode, Axes property 1701
drawnow 1720
dsearch
dsearchn
Dulmage-Mendelsohn decomposition
echo
Echo, Root property 1898
edge finding, Sobel technique
EdgeAlpha
patch property 1866
surface property 1920
surfaceplot property
EdgeColor
annotation ellipse property
annotation rectangle property
annotation textbox property
areaseries property
barseries property
patch property 1866
Surface property 1921
surfaceplot property
Text property 1938
EdgeColor, rectangle property 1890
EdgeLighting
patch property 1867
Surface property 1921
surfaceplot property
editable text
editing
M-files
eig
eigensystem
transforming
eigenvalue
accuracy of
complex
matrix logarithm and
modern approach to computation of
of companion matrix
problem <1> <2>
problem, generalized <1> <2>
problem, polynomial
repeated
Wilkinson test matrix and
eigenvalues
effect of roundoff error
improving accuracy
eigenvector
left
matrix, generalized
right
eigs
elevation (spherical coordinates)
elevation of viewpoint
ellipj
ellipke
ellipsoid
elliptic functions, Jacobian
(defined)
elliptic integral
complete (defined)
modulus of <1> <2>
else
elseif
Enable
Uicontrol property
Uimenu property
Uipushtool property
Uitogglehtool property
end
end caps for isosurfaces
end of line, indicating
end-of-file indicator
eomday
eps
eq
equal arrays
detecting <1> <2>
equal sign (special characters)
equations, linear
accuracy of solution
EraseMode
areaseries property
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
hggroup property 1799
hgtransform property 1811
Image property
Line property 1834
lineseries property
quivergroup property
rectangle property 1891
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
Surface property 1922
surfaceplot property
Text property 1939
EraseModepatch property 1867
erf
erfc
erfcinv
erfcx
erfinv
error
roundoff See roundoff error
error
error function
(defined)
complementary
scaled complementary
error message
displaying
Index into matrix is negative or zero
retrieving last generated <1> <2>
error messages
Out of memory
error tolerance
BVP problems
DDE problems
ODE problems
errorbars
errordlg
ErrorMessage, Root property 1899
errors
in file input/output
ErrorType, Root property 1899
escape characters in format specification string <1> <2>
etime
etree
etreeplot
eval
evalc
evalin
event location (DDE)
event location (ODE)
examples
calculating isosurface normals
contouring mathematical expressions 1722
isosurface end caps
isosurfaces
mesh plot of mathematical function 1728
mesh/contour plot 1731
plotting filled contours 1725
plotting function of two variables 1734
plotting parametric curves 1737
polar plot of function 1740
reducing number of patch faces
reducing volume data
subsampling volume data
surface plot of mathematical function 1743
surface/contour plot 1747
Excel spreadsheets
loading
exclamation point (special characters)
executing statements repeatedly <1> <2>
execution
improving speed of by setting aside storage
pausing M-file
resuming from breakpoint
time for M-files
exist
exit
exp
expint
expm
expm1
exponential
complex (defined)
integral
matrix
exponentiation
array (arithmetic operator)
matrix (arithmetic operator)
extension, filename
.m
.mat
Extent
Text property 1940
Uicontrol property
eye
ezcontour 1721
ezcontourf 1724
ezmesh 1727
ezmeshc 1730
ezplot 1733
ezplot3 1736
ezpolar 1739
ezsurf 1742
ezsurfc 1746
FaceAlpha
annotation textbox property
FaceAlphapatch property 1868
FaceAlphasurface property 1923
FaceAlphasurfaceplot property
FaceColor
annotation ellipse property
annotation rectangle property
areaseries property
barseries property
Surface property 1923
surfaceplot property
FaceColor, rectangle property 1892
FaceColorpatch property 1869
FaceLighting
Surface property 1923
surfaceplot property
FaceLightingpatch property 1869
faces, reducing number in patches
Faces,patch property 1869
FaceVertexAlphaData, patch property 1870
FaceVertexCData,patch property 1871
factor
factorial
factorization
LU
QZ <1> <2>
See also decomposition
factorization, Cholesky
(as algorithm for solving linear equations)
minimum degree ordering and (sparse)
preordering for
factors, prime
false
fclose
feather
feof
ferror
feval
fft
FFT See Fourier transform
fft2
fftn
fftshift
FFTW
fftw
fgetl
fgets
field names of a structure, obtaining
fields, noncontiguous, inserting data into
fig files
annotating for printing
figflag
Figure
creating 1749
defining default properties 1750
properties 1751
redrawing
figure 1749
figure windows, displaying
figurepalette
Figures
updating from M-file 1720
figures
annotating
opening
saving
file
extension, getting
position indicator
finding
setting
setting to start of file
file formats
getting list of supported formats
reading
writing
file size
querying
fileattrib
filebrowser
filename
building from parts
parts
temporary
filename extension
.m
.mat
fileparts
files
ASCII delimited
reading
writing
beginning of, rewinding to <1> <2>
checking existence of
closing
contents, listing
copying
deleting
deleting on FTP server
end of, testing for
errors in input or output
Excel spreadsheets
loading
fig
figure, saving
finding position within
getting next line
getting next line (with line terminator)
listing
in directory
names in a directory
listing contents of
locating
mdl
mode when opened
model, saving
opening <1> <2>
in Web browser
opening in Windows applications
path, getting
pathname for
reading
binary
data from
formatted
reading image data from
rewinding to beginning of <1> <2>
setting position within
size, determining
sound
reading <1> <2>
writing <1> <2> <3>
startup
version, getting
.wav
reading
writing
WK1
loading
writing to
writing binary data to
writing formatted data to
writing image data to
See also file
filesep
Fill
contour property
fill
fill3
filter
digital
finite impulse response (FIR)
infinite impulse response (IIR)
two-dimensional
filter
filter2
find
findall
findfigs
finding
indices of arrays
sign of array elements
zero of a function
See also detecting
findobj <1> <2>
finish
finish.m
finite numbers
detecting
FIR filter
fitsinfo
fitsread
fix
FixedColors, Figure property 1759
fixed-width font
axes 1701
text 1941
uicontrols
FixedWidthFontName, Root property 1899
flints
flipdim
fliplr
flipud
floating-point
integer, maximum
floating-point arithmetic, IEEE
smallest postive number
floor
flops
flow control
break
case
end
error
for
keyboard
otherwise
return
switch
while
fminbnd
fminsearch
F-norm
font
fixed-width, axes 1701
fixed-width, text 1941
fixed-width, uicontrols
FontAngle
annotation textbox property
Axes property 1701
Text property 1940
Uicontrol property
FontName
annotation textarrow property
annotation textbox property
Axes property 1701
Text property 1940
Uicontrol property
fonts
bold <1> <2> <3>
italic 1940
specifying size 1941
TeX characters
bold 1951
italics 1951
specifying family 1951
specifying size 1951
units 1941
FontSize
annotation textarrow property
annotation textbox property
Axes property 1702
Text property 1941
Uicontrol property
FontUnits
Axes property 1702
Text property 1941
Uicontrol property
FontWeight
annotation textarrow property
annotation textbox property
Axes property 1702
Text property 1941
Uicontrol property
fopen
for
ForegroundColor
Uicontrol property
Uimenu property
Format 1899
format
precision when writing
reading files
specification string, matching file data to
format
formats
big endian <1> <2>
little endian <1> <2>
FormatSpacing, Root property 1900
formatted data
reading from file
writing to file
formatting data
Fourier transform
algorithm, optimal performance of <1> <2> <3> <4>
convolution theorem and
discrete, n-dimensional
discrete, one-dimensional
discrete, two-dimensional
fast
as method of interpolation
inverse, n-dimensional
inverse, one-dimensional
inverse, two-dimensional
shifting the zero-frequency component of
fplot <1> <2>
fprintf
fraction, continued
fragmented memory
frame2im
frames for printing
fread
freqspace
freqspace
frequency response
desired response matrix
frequency spacing
frequency vector
frewind
fscanf
fseek
ftell
FTP
connecting to server
ftp
full
fullfile
func2str
function <1> <2>
function handle
function handles
overview of
function syntax
functions
call stack for
checking existence of
clearing from workspace
finding using keywords
help for <1> <2>
in memory
locating
pathname for
that work down the first non-singleton dimension
funm
fwrite
fzero
gallery
gamma
gamma function
(defined)
incomplete
logarithm of
logarithmic derivative
gammainc
gammaln
Gaussian distribution function
Gaussian elimination
(as algorithm for solving linear equations) <1> <2>
Gauss Jordan elimination with partial pivoting
LU factorization
gca
gcbo
gcd
gcf
gco
ge
generalized eigenvalue problem <1> <2>
generating a sequence of matrix names (M1 through M12)
genpath
genvarname
geodesic dome
get 1791
get
memmapfile object
timer object
getenv
getfield
getframe
getpref function
GIF files
reading
writing
ginput function
global
global variable
defining
global variables, clearing from workspace
gmres
golden section search
Goup
defining default properties 1808
gplot
grabcode function
gradient
gradient, numerical
graph
adjacency
Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) files
reading
graphics objects
Axes 1687
Figure 1749
getting properties 1791
Image
Light 1819
Line 1828
Patch 1853
resetting properties
Root <1> <2>
setting properties 1906
Surface 1912
Text 1931
uicontextmenu
Uicontrol
Uimenu
graphics objects, deleting
graphs
editing
graymon
greatest common divisor
Greek letters and mathematical symbols 1950
grid
aligning data to a
grid
grid arrays
for volumetric plots
multi-dimensional
griddata
griddata3
griddatan
GridLineStyle, Axes property 1702
gsvd
gt
gtext
guidata function
guihandles function
GUIs, printing
H1 line
h5array class
using
h5compound class
using
h5enum class
using
h5string class
using
h5vlen class
using
hadamard
Hadamard matrix
subspaces of
HandleVisibility
areaseries property
Axes property 1702
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
Figure property 1759
hggroup property 1800
hgtransform property 1812
Image property
Light property 1823
Line property 1835
lineseries property
patch property 1872
quivergroup property
rectangle property 1892
Root property 1900
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
Surface property 1924
surfaceplot property
Text property 1941
Uicontextmenu property
Uicontrol property
Uimenu property
Uipushtool property
Uitoggletool property
Uitoolbar property
hankel
Hankel matrix
HDF
appending to when saving (WriteMode)
compression
setting JPEG quality when writing
HDF 4 application programming interfaces
HDF files
reading images from
writing images
HDF5 data type classes
hdf5.h5array
hdf5.h5compound
hdf5.h5enum
hdf5.h5string
hdf5.h5vlen
hdf5info
hdf5read
hdf5write
hdfinfo
hdfread
hdftool
Head1Length
annotation doublearrow property
Head1Style
annotation doublearrow property
Head1Width
annotation doublearrow property
Head2Length
annotation doublearrow property
Head2Style
annotation doublearrow property
Head2Width
annotation doublearrow property
HeadLength
annotation arrow property
annotation textarrow property
HeadStyle
annotation arrow property
annotation textarrow property
HeadWidth
annotation arrow property
annotation textarrow property
Height
annotation ellipse property
annotation rectangle property
help
contents file
creating for M-files
keyword search in functions
online
help
Help browser
accessing from doc
Help Window
helpbrowser
helpdesk
helpdlg
helpwin
Hermite transformations, elementary
hess
Hessenberg form of a matrix
hex2dec
hex2num
hidden
Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) files
reading images from
writing images
hilb
Hilbert matrix
inverse
hist
histc
HitTest
areaseries property
Axes property 1703
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
Figure property 1760
hggroup property 1801
hgtransform property 1813
Image property
Light property 1823
Line property 1835
lineseries property
Patch property 1873
quivergroup property
rectangle property 1893
Root property 1900
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
Surface property 1925
surfaceplot property
Text property 1942
Uicontextmenu property
Uicontrol property
HitTestArea
areaseries property
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
quivergroup property
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
hold
home
HorizontalAlignment
Text property 1943
textarrow property
textbox property
Uicontrol property
horzcat
horzcat (M-file function equivalent for [,])
hostid
Householder reflections (as algorithm for solving linear equations)
hsv2rgb
HTML
in Command Window
HTML browser
in MATLAB
HTML files
opening
hyperbolic
cosecant
cosecant, inverse
cosine
cosine, inverse
cotangent
cotangent, inverse
secant
secant, inverse
sine
sine, inverse
tangent
tangent, inverse
hyperlinks
in Command Window
hyperplanes, angle between
i
ICO files
reading
icon images
reading
identity matrix
sparse
IEEE floating-point arithmetic
smallest positive number
if
ifft
ifft2
ifftn
ifftshift
IIR filter
im2java
imag
Image
creating
properties
image
image types
querying
Images
converting MATLAB image to Java Image
images
file formats <1> <2>
reading data from files
returning information about
writing to files
imagesc
imaginary
part of complex number
unit (sqrt(-1)) <1> <2>
See also complex
imfinfo
returning file information
imformats
importdata
imread
imwrite <1> <2>
incomplete beta function
(defined)
incomplete gamma function
(defined)
ind2sub
Index into matrix is negative or zero (error message)
indexing
logical
indicator of file position
indices, array
finding
of sorted elements
Inf
inferiorto
infinite elements
detecting
infinity
norm
info
information
returning file information
inheritance, of objects
inline
inmem
inpolygon
input
checking number of M-file arguments
name of array passed as
number of M-file arguments
prompting users for <1> <2>
input
inputdlg
inputname
inspect
installation, root directory of
int2str
int8, int16, int32, int64
integer
floating-point, maximum
integration
polynomial
quadrature
interp1
interp2
interp3
interpft
interpn
interpolated shading and printing
interpolation
one-dimensional
two-dimensional
three-dimensional
multidimensional
cubic method <1> <2> <3> <4> <5>
cubic spline method
FFT method
linear method <1> <2>
nearest neighbor method <1> <2> <3> <4> <5>
trilinear method <1> <2> <3>
Interpreter
Text property 1944
textarrow property
textbox property
interpstreamspeed
Interruptible
areaseries property
Axes property 1704
barseries property <1> <2>
contour property
errorbar property
Figure property 1760, 1761 <1> <2>
hggroup property 1801
hgtransform property 1814
Image property
Light property 1824
Line property 1836
lineseries property
patch property 1873
quivergroup property
rectangle property 1893
Root property 1900
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property <1> <2>
Surface property <1> <2>
Text property 1945
Uicontextmenu property
Uicontrol property
Uimenu property
Uipushtool property
Uitoggletool property
Uitoolbar property
intersect
intmax
intmin
intwarning
inv
inverse
cosecant
cosine
cotangent
Fourier transform <1> <2> <3>
Hilbert matrix
hyperbolic cosecant
hyperbolic cosine
hyperbolic cotangent
hyperbolic secant
hyperbolic sine
hyperbolic tangent
of a matrix
secant
sine
tangent
tangent, four-quadrant
inversion, matrix
accuracy of
InvertHardCopy, Figure property 1761
invhilb
involutary matrix
ipermute
is*
isa
iscell
iscellstr
ischar
isdir
isempty
isequal
isequalwithequalnans
isfield
isfinite
isfloat
isglobal
ishandle 1817
isinf
isinteger
iskeyword
isletter
islogical
ismember
ismethod
isnan
isnumeric
isobject
isocap
isonormals
isosurface
calculate data from volume
end caps
vertex normals
isosurface
ispc
ispref function
isprime
isprop
isreal
isscalar
issorted
isspace <1> <2>
issparse
isstr
isstruct
isstudent
isunix
isvalid
timer object
isvarname
isvarname
isvector
italics font
TeX characters 1951
j
Jacobi rotations
Jacobian elliptic functions
(defined)
Jacobian matrix (BVP)
Jacobian matrix (ODE)
generating sparse numerically <1> <2>
specifying <1> <2>
vectorizing ODE function <1> <2>
Java
class names
Java Image class
creating instance of
Java import list
clearing
Java version used by MATLAB
java_method
joining arrays See concatenation
Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)
reading
writing
JPEG
setting Bitdepth
specifying mode
JPEG comment
setting when writing a JPEG image
JPEG files
parameters that can be set when writing
reading
writing
JPEG quality
setting when writing a JPEG image <1> <2>
setting when writing an HDF image
jvm
version used by MATLAB
K>> prompt
keyboard function
keyboard
keyboard mode
terminating
KeyPressFcn
Uicontrol property
KeyPressFcn, Figure property 1761
keyword search in functions
keywords
iskeyword function
kron
Kronecker tensor product
Label, Uimenu property
labeling
axes
matrix columns
plots (with numeric values)
LabelSpacing
contour property
Laplacian
largest array elements
lasterr
lasterror
lastwarn
LaTeX, see TeX 1950
Layer, Axes property 1704
Layout Editor
starting
lcm
LData
errorbar property
LDataSource
errorbar property
ldivide
ldivide (M-file function equivalent for .\)
le
least common multiple
least squares
polynomial curve fitting
problem, overdetermined
legend
properties
setting text properties
legend
legendre
Legendre functions
(defined)
Schmidt semi-normalized
length
LevelList
contour property
LevelListMode
contour property
LevelStep
contour property
LevelStepMode
contour property
license
Light
creating 1819
defining default properties <1> <2>
positioning in camera coordinates
properties 1821
light 1819
Light object
positioning in spherical coordinates 1826
lightangle 1826
lighting 1827
limits of axes, setting and querying
Line
creating 1828
defining default properties 1831
properties <1> <2> <3>
line 1828
editing
line numbers in M-files
linear audio signal <1> <2>
linear dependence (of data)
linear equation systems
accuracy of solution
solving overdetermined
linear equation systems, methods for solving
Cholesky factorization
Gaussian elimination
Householder reflections
matrix inversion (inaccuracy of)
linear interpolation <1> <2>
linear regression
linearly spaced vectors, creating
LineColor
contour property
lines
computing 2-D stream
computing 3-D stream
drawing stream lines
LineSpec
LineSpec
LineStyle
annotation arrow property
annotation doublearrow property
annotation ellipse property
annotation line property
annotation rectangle property
annotation textarrow property
annotation textbox property
areaseries property
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
Line property 1836
lineseries property
patch property 1874
quivergroup property
rectangle property 1893
stairseries property
stem property
surface object 1925
surfaceplot object
text object 1946
LineStyleOrder
Axes property 1704
LineWidth
annotation arrow property
annotation doublearrow property
annotation ellipse property
annotation line property
annotation rectangle property
annotation textarrow property
annotation textbox property
areaseries property
Axes property 1705
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
Line property 1837
lineseries property
Patch property 1874
quivergroup property
rectangle property 1893
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
Surface property 1926
surfaceplot property
text object 1947
linkaxes
linkprop
links
in Command Window
linsolve
linspace
list boxes
defining items
ListboxTop, Uicontrol property
listdlg
little endian formats <1> <2>
load
loadobj
Lobatto IIIa ODE solver
local variables <1> <2>
locking M-files
log
saving session to file
log
log10 [log010]
log1p
log2
logarithm
base ten
base two
complex <1> <2>
natural
of beta function (natural)
of gamma function (natural)
of real numbers
plotting
logarithmic derivative
gamma function
logarithmically spaced vectors, creating
logical
logical array
converting numeric array to
detecting
logical indexing
logical operations
AND, bit-wise
OR, bit-wise
XOR
XOR, bit-wise
logical operators <1> <2>
logical tests
all
any
See also detecting
loglog
logm
logspace
lookfor
lossless compression
reading JPEG files
lossy compression
writing JPEG files with
Lotus WK1 files
loading
writing
lower
lower triangular matrix
lowercase to uppercase
ls
lscov
lsqnonneg
lsqr
lt
lu
LU factorization
storage requirements of (sparse)
luinc
machine epsilon
magic
magic squares
Margin
annotation textbox property
Marker
Line property 1837
lineseries property
marker property
Patch property 1874
quivergroup property
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
Surface property 1926
surfaceplot property
MarkerEdgeColor
errorbar property
Line property 1838
lineseries property
Patch property 1875
quivergroup property
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
Surface property 1927
surfaceplot property
MarkerFaceColor
errorbar property
Line property 1838
lineseries property
Patch property 1875
quivergroup property
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
Surface property 1927
surfaceplot property
MarkerSize
errorbar property
Line property 1838
lineseries property
Patch property 1875
quivergroup property
stairseries property
stem property
Surface property 1927
surfaceplot property
mass matrix (ODE)
initial slope
singular
sparsity pattern
specifying
state dependence
mat2cell
mat2str
material 1842
MAT-file
converting sparse matrix after loading from
MAT-files
listing for directory
MATLAB
directory location
installation directory
quitting
startup
version number, displaying
matlab (UNIX command)
matlab (Windows command)
matlab function for UNIX
matlab function for Windows
MATLAB startup file
matlab.mat <1> <2>
matlab: function
matlabcolon function
matlabrc
matlabroot
matrices
preallocation
Matrix
hgtransform property 1814
matrix
addressing selected rows and columns of
arrowhead
companion
complex unitary
condition number of <1> <2>
condition number, improving
converting to formatted data file
converting to from string
converting to vector
decomposition
defective (defined)
detecting sparse
determinant of
diagonal of
Dulmage-Mendelsohn decomposition
evaluating functions of
exponential
flipping left-right
flipping up-down
Hadamard <1> <2>
Hankel
Hermitian Toeplitz
Hessenberg form of
Hilbert
identity
inverse
inverse Hilbert
inversion, accuracy of
involutary
left division (arithmetic operator)
lower triangular
magic squares <1> <2>
maximum size of
modal
multiplication (defined)
orthonormal
Pascal <1> <2>
permutation <1> <2>
poorly conditioned
power (arithmetic operator)
pseudoinverse
reading files into
reduced row echelon form of
replicating
right division (arithmetic operator)
rotating 90°
Schur form of <1> <2>
singularity, test for
sorting rows of
sparse See sparse matrix
specialized
square root of
subspaces of
test
Toeplitz
trace of <1> <2>
transpose (arithmetic operator)
transposing
unimodular
unitary
upper triangular
Vandermonde
Wilkinson <1> <2>
writing as binary data
writing formatted data to
writing to ASCII delimited file
writing to spreadsheet
See also array
matrix functions
evaluating
matrix names, (M1 through M12) generating a sequence of
matrix power See matrix, exponential
max
Max, Uicontrol property
MaxHeadSize
quivergroup property
maximum matching
MDL-files
checking existence of
mean
median
median value of array elements
memmapfile
memory
clearing
minimizing use of
variables in
memory
menu (of user input choices)
menu function
MenuBar, Figure property 1763
mesh
mesh plot
tetrahedron
mesh size (BVP)
meshc
meshgrid
MeshStyle, Surface property 1927
MeshStyle, surfaceplot property
meshz
message
error See error message
warning See warning message
methods
inheritance of
locating
MEX-files
clearing from workspace
debugging on UNIX
listing for directory
M-file
debugging
displaying during execution
function
function file, echoing
naming conventions
pausing execution of
programming
script
script file, echoing
M-files
checking existence of
checking for problems
clearing from workspace
creating
in MATLAB directory
debugging with profile
deleting
editing
line numbers, listing
lint tool
listing names of in a directory
locking (preventing clearing)
opening
optimizing
problems, checking for
setting breakpoints <1> <2>
unlocking (allowing clearing)
Microsoft Excel files
loading
min
Min, Uicontrol property
MinColormap, Figure property 1763
minimum degree ordering
MinorGridLineStyle, Axes property 1705
minres
minus (M-file function equivalent for -)
mislocked
mkdir
mkdir (ftp)
mkpp
mldivide
mldivide (M-file function equivalent for \)
M-Lint
function
function for entire directory
HTML report
mlint
mlintrpt
mlock
mmfilefinfo
mmfileinfo
mod
modal matrix
models
opening
saving
modified Bessel functions
relationship to Airy functions
modulo arithmetic
MonitorPosition
Root property 1900
Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse
more <1> <2>
movefile
movegui function
movie
movie2avi
movies
exporting in AVI format
mpower (M-file function equivalent for ^)
mrdivide
mrdivide (M-file function equivalent for /)
msgbox
mtimes
mtimes (M-file function equivalent for *)
mu-law encoded audio signals <1> <2>
multibandread
multibandwrite
multidimensional arrays
concatenating
interpolation of
longest dimension of
number of dimensions of
rearranging dimensions of <1> <2>
removing singleton dimensions of
reshaping
size of
sorting elements of
See also array
multiple
least common
multiplication
array (arithmetic operator)
matrix (defined)
of polynomials
multistep ODE solver
munlock
Name, Figure property 1763
namelengthmax
naming conventions
M-file
NaN
NaN
detecting
NaN (Not-a-Number)
returned by rem
nargchk
nargin
nargout
native2unicode
ndgrid
ndims
ne
nearest neighbor interpolation <1> <2> <3>
newplot 1845
NextPlot
Axes property 1705
Figure property 1764
nextpow2
nnz
no derivative method
noncontiguous fields, inserting data into
nonzero entries
specifying maximum number of in sparse matrix
nonzero entries (in sparse matrix)
allocated storage for
number of
replacing with ones
vector of
nonzeros
norm
1-norm <1> <2>
2-norm (estimate of)
F-norm
infinity
matrix
pseudoinverse and
vector
norm
normal vectors, computing for volumes
NormalMode
Patch property 1876
Surface property 1927
surfaceplot property
normest
not
not (M-file function equivalent for ~)
notebook
now
nthroot
null
null space
num2cell
num2hex
num2str
number
of array dimensions
numbers
detecting finite
detecting infinity
detecting NaN
detecting prime
imaginary
NaN
plus infinity
prime
random <1> <2>
real
smallest positive
NumberTitle, Figure property 1764
numel
numeric format
numeric precision
format reading binary data
numerical differentiation formula ODE solvers
numerical evaluation
double integral
triple integral
nzmax
object
determining class of
inheritance
object classes, list of predefined <1> <2>
ODE file template
ODE solver properties
error tolerance
event location
Jacobian matrix
mass matrix
ode15s
solver output
step size
ODE solvers
backward differentiation formulas
numerical differentiation formulas
obtaining solutions at specific times
variable order solver
ode113
ode15i function
ode15s
ode23
ode23s
ode23t
ode23tb
ode45
odefile
odeget
odephas2 output function
odephas3 output function
odeplot output function
odeprint output function
odeset
odextend
OffCallback
Uitoggletool property
off-screen figures, displaying
OnCallback
Uitoggletool property
ones
one-step ODE solver
online documentation, displaying
online help
open
openfig
OpenGL 1768
autoselection criteria 1771
opening
files in Windows applications
opening files
openvar
operating system command
operating system command, issuing
operators
arithmetic
logical <1> <2>
overloading arithmetic
overloading relational
relational <1> <2>
special characters
symbols
optimget
optimization parameters structure <1> <2>
optimizing M-file execution
optimset
logical OR
bit-wise
or
or (M-file function equivalent for |)
ordeig
orderfields
ordering
minimum degree
reverse Cuthill-McKee <1> <2>
ordqz
ordschur
orient
orth
orthogonal-triangular decomposition
orthographic projection, setting and querying
orthonormal matrix
otherwise
Out of memory (error message)
OuterPosition
Axes property 1706
output
checking number of M-file arguments
controlling display format
in Command Window
number of M-file arguments
output points (ODE)
increasing number of
output properties (DDE)
output properties (ODE)
increasing number of output points
overdetermined equation systems, solving
overflow
overloading
arithmetic operators
relational operators
special characters
pack
pagesetupdlg
paging
of screen
paging in the Command Window
PaperOrientation, Figure property 1764
PaperPosition, Figure property 1764
PaperPositionMode, Figure property 1765
PaperSize, Figure property 1765
PaperType, Figure property 1765
PaperUnits, Figure property 1766
parametric curve, plotting 1736
Parent
areaseries property
Axes property 1707
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
Figure property 1767
hggroup property 1802
hgtransform property 1814
Image property
Light property 1824
Line property 1838
lineseries property
Patch property 1876
quivergroup property
rectangle property 1893
Root property 1901
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
Surface property 1928
surfaceplot property
Text property 1949
Uicontextmenu property
Uicontrol property
Uimenu property
Uipushtool property
Uitoggletool property
Uitoolbar property
parentheses (special characters)
pareto
partial fraction expansion
partialpath
pascal
Pascal matrix <1> <2>
Patch
converting a surface to
creating 1853
defining default properties 1859
properties 1860
reducing number of faces
reducing size of face
patch 1853
path
adding directories to
building from parts
current
removing directories from
viewing
path
path2rc
pathdef
pathname
partial
pathnames
of functions or files
relative
pathsep
pathtool
pause
pauses, removing
pausing M-file execution
pbaspect
PBM
parameters that can be set when writing
PBM files
reading
writing
pcg
pcg
pchip
pcode
pcolor
PCX files
reading
writing
PDE See Partial Differential Equations
pdepe
pdeval
percent sign (special characters)
perfect matching
period (.), to distinguish matrix and array operations
period (special characters)
perl
Perl scripts in MATLAB
perms
permutation
of array dimensions
matrix <1> <2>
random
permutations of n elements
permute
persistent
persistent variable
perspective projection, setting and querying
P-files
checking existence of
PGM
parameters that can be set when writing
PGM files
reading
writing
phase angle, complex
phase, complex
correcting angles
pi
pie
pie3
pinv
planerot
platform MATLAB is running on
playshow function
plot
editing
plot box aspect ratio of axes
plot editing mode
overview
Plot Editor
interface <1> <2>
plot, volumetric
generating grid arrays for
slice plot
plot3
PlotBoxAspectRatio, Axes property 1707
PlotBoxAspectRatioMode, Axes property 1707
plotedit
plotmatrix
plotting
2-D plot
3-D plot
contours (a 1721
contours (ez function) 1721
ez-function mesh plot 1727
feather plots
filled contours 1724
function plots 1786
functions with discontinuities 1743
histogram plots
in polar coordinates 1739
isosurfaces
loglog plot
mathematical function 1733
mesh contour plot 1730
mesh plot
parametric curve 1736
plot with two y-axes
ribbon plot
rose plot
scatter plot
scatter plot, 3-D
semilogarithmic plot
stem plot, 3-D
surface plot
surfaces 1742
velocity vectors
volumetric slice plot
plotting See visualizing
plotyy
plus (M-file function equivalent for +)
PNG
writing options for
alpha
background color
chromaticities
gamma
interlace type
resolution
significant bits
transparency
PNG files
reading
reading alpha channel
reading transparency chunk
specifying background color chunk
writing
PNM files
reading
writing
Pointer, Figure property 1767
PointerLocation, Root property 1901
PointerShapeCData, Figure property 1767
PointerShapeHotSpot, Figure property 1767
PointerWindow, Root property 1901
pol2cart
polar
polar coordinates
computing the angle
converting from Cartesian
converting to cylindrical or Cartesian
plotting in 1739
poles of transfer function
poly
polyarea
polyder
polyeig
polyfit
polygamma function
polygon
area of
creating with patch 1853
detecting points inside
polyint
polynomial
analytic integration
characteristic
coefficients (transfer function)
curve fitting with
derivative of
division
eigenvalue problem
evaluation
evaluation (matrix sense)
make piecewise
multiplication
polyval
polyvalm
poorly conditioned
matrix
poorly conditioned eigenvalues
pop-up menus
defining choices
Portable Anymap files
reading
writing
Portable Bitmap (PBM) files
reading
writing
Portable Graymap files
reading
writing
Portable Network Graphics files
reading
writing
Portable pixmap format
reading
writing
Position
annotation textbox property
Axes property 1708
Figure property 1767
Light property 1824
Text property 1949
Uicontextmenu property
Uicontrol property
Uimenu property
position indicator in file
position of camera
dollying
position of camera, setting and querying
Position, rectangle property 1894
PostScript
default printer
levels 1 and 2
printing interpolated shading
pow2
power
matrix See matrix exponential
of real numbers
of two, next
power
power (M-file function equivalent for .^)
PPM
parameters that can be set when writing
PPM files
reading
writing
ppval
preallocation
matrix
precision
reading binary data writing
prefdir
preferences
opening the dialog box
preferences
prime factors
dependence of Fourier transform on <1> <2> <3>
prime numbers
detecting
primes
print
print frames
printdlg
printer
default for linux and unix
printer drivers
GhostScript drivers
interploated shading
MATLAB printer drivers
printframe
PrintFrame Editor
printing
borders
fig files with frames
GUIs
interpolated shading
on MS-Windows
with a variable filename
with non-normal EraseMode <1> <2> <3> <4> <5> <6> <7> <8>
with print frames
printing tips
printing, suppressing
printopt
printpreview
prod
product
cumulative
Kronecker tensor
of array elements
of vectors (cross)
scalar (dot)
profile
profsave
projection type, setting and querying
ProjectionType, Axes property 1708
prompting users for input <1> <2>
propedit
proppanel
pseudoinverse
psi
publish function
push buttons
putfile
pwd
qmr
qr
QR decomposition
deleting column from
qrdelete
qrinsert
qrupdate
quad
quad8
quadl
quadrature
quadv
questdlg
quit
quitting MATLAB
quiver
quiver3
quotation mark
inserting in a string
qz
QZ factorization <1> <2>
radio buttons
rand
randn
random
numbers <1> <2>
permutation
sparse matrix <1> <2>
symmetric sparse matrix
randperm
range space
rank
rank of a matrix
RAS files
parameters that can be set when writing
reading
writing
RAS image format
specifying color order
writing alpha data
Raster image files
reading
writing
rat
rational fraction approximation
rats
rbbox <1> <2>
rcond
rdivide
rdivide (M-file function equivalent for ./)
reading
binary files
data from files
formatted data from file
formatted data from strings
readme files, displaying <1> <2>
real
real numbers
reallog
realmax
realmin
realpow
realsqrt
rearranging arrays
converting to vector
removing first n singleton dimensions
removing singleton dimensions
reshaping
shifting dimensions
swapping dimensions <1> <2>
rearranging matrices
converting to vector
flipping left-right
flipping up-down
rotating 90°
transposing
rectint
RecursionLimit
Root property 1901
recycle
reduced row echelon form
reducepatch
reducevolume
reference page
accessing from doc
refresh
regexp
regexpi
regexprep
regression
linear
regularly spaced vectors, creating <1> <2>
rehash
relational operators <1> <2>
relative accuracy
BVP
DDE
norm of DDE solution
norm of ODE solution
ODE
release notes
function to display
rem
renderer
OpenGL 1768
painters 1768
zbuffer 1768
Renderer, Figure property 1768
RendererMode, Figure property 1771
repeatedly executing statements <1> <2>
replicating a matrix
repmat
reset
reshape
residue
residues of transfer function
Resize, Figure property 1772
ResizeFcn, Figure property 1772
restoredefaultpath
rethrow
return
reverse Cuthill-McKee ordering <1> <2>
rewinding files to beginning of <1> <2>
RGB, converting to HSV
rgb2hsv
rgbplot
ribbon
right-click and context menus
rmdir
rmdir (ftp)
rmfield
rmpath
rmpref function
RMS See root-mean-square
rolling camera
root <1> <2>
root directory
root directory for MATLAB
Root graphics object <1> <2>
root object <1> <2>
root, see rootobject <1> <2>
root-mean-square
of vector
roots
roots of a polynomial
rose
Rosenbrock
banana function
ODE solver
rosser
rot90
rotate
rotate3d
rotating camera
rotating camera target
Rotation, Text property 1949
rotations
Jacobi
round
to nearest integer
towards infinity
towards minus infinity
towards zero
round
roundoff error
characteristic polynomial and
convolution theorem and
effect on eigenvalues
evaluating matrix functions
in inverse Hilbert matrix
partial fraction expansion and
polynomial roots and
sparse matrix conversion and
rref
rrefmovie
rsf2csf
rubberband box 1881
run
Runge-Kutta ODE solvers
running average
save
saveas
saveobj
savepath
saving
ASCII data
session to a file
workspace variables
scalar product (of vectors)
scaled complementary error function (defined)
scattered data, aligning
multi-dimensional
two-dimensional
Schmidt semi-normalized Legendre functions
schur
Schur decomposition
Schur form of matrix <1> <2>
screen, paging
ScreenDepth, Root property 1901
ScreenPixelsPerInch, Root property 1902
ScreenSize, Root property 1902
script
scrolling screen
search path
adding directories to
MATLAB's
modifying
viewing
search, string
sec
secant
hyperbolic
inverse
inverse hyperbolic
secd
sech
Selected
areaseries property
Axes property 1708
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
Figure property 1773
hggroup property 1802
hgtransform property 1814
Image property
Light property 1824
Line property 1838
lineseries property
Patch property 1876
quivergroup property
rectangle property 1894
Root property 1902
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
Surface property 1928
surfaceplot property
Text property 1949
Uicontextmenu property
Uicontrol property
selecting areas 1881
SelectionHighlight
areaseries property
Axes property 1708
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
Figure property 1773
hggroup property 1802
hgtransform property 1814
Image property
Light property 1824
Line property 1838
lineseries property
Patch property 1876
quivergroup property
rectangle property 1894
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
Surface property 1928
surfaceplot property
Text property 1949
Uicontextmenu property
Uicontrol property
SelectionType, Figure property 1773
selectmoveresize 1905, <1> <2>
semicolon (special characters)
semilogx
semilogy
sendmail
Separator
Uipushtool property
Uitoggletool property
Separator, Uimenu property
sequence of matrix names (M1 through M12)
generating
server (FTP)
connecting to
session
saving
set 1906
set
timer object
set operations
difference
exclusive or
intersection
membership
union
unique
setappdata
setdiff
setfield
setpref function
setstr
setxor
shading 1909
shading colors in surface plots 1909
ShareColors, Figure property 1774
shell script <1> <2>
shiftdim
shifting array
circular
ShowArrowHead
quivergroup property
ShowHiddenHandles, Root property 1902
ShowText
contour property
shrinkfaces
shutdown
sign
signum function
simplex search
Simpson's rule, adaptive recursive
Simulink
printing diagram with frames
version number, displaying
sin
sind
sine
hyperbolic
inverse
inverse hyperbolic
single
single quote (special characters)
singular value
decomposition <1> <2>
largest
rank and
sinh
size
array dimesions
size of array dimensions
size of fonts, see also FontSize property 1951
size vector
SizeData
scatter property
skipping bytes (during file I/O)
slice
slice planes, contouring
sliders
SliderStep, Uicontrol property
smallest array elements
smooth3
smoothing 3-D data
soccer ball (example)
solution statistics (BVP)
sort
sorting
array elements
complex conjugate pairs
matrix rows
sortrows
sound
converting vector into <1> <2>
files
reading <1> <2>
writing <1> <2>
playing
recording
resampling
sampling
sound <1> <2>
source control on UNIX platforms
checking out files
function
source control system
viewing current system
source control systems
checking in files
undo checkout
spalloc
sparse
sparse matrix
allocating space for
applying function only to nonzero elements of
density of
detecting
diagonal
finding indices of nonzero elements of
identity
minimum degree ordering of
number of nonzero elements in
permuting columns of
random <1> <2>
random symmetric
replacing nonzero elements of with ones
results of mixed operations on
solving least squares linear system
specifying maximum number of nonzero elements
vector of nonzero elements
visualizing sparsity pattern of
sparse storage
criterion for using
spaugment
spconvert
spdiags
special characters
descriptions
overloading
SpecularColorReflectance
Patch property 1876
Surface property 1928
surfaceplot property
SpecularExponent
Patch property 1877
Surface property 1928
surfaceplot property
SpecularStrength
Patch property 1877
Surface property 1928
surfaceplot property
speye
spfun
sph2cart
sphere
sphereical coordinates
defining a Light position in 1826
spherical coordinates
spinmap
spline
spline interpolation (cubic)
multidimensional
one-dimensional
three dimensional
two-dimensional
Spline Toolbox
spones
spparms
sprand
sprandn
sprandsym
sprank
spreadsheets
loading WK1 files
loading XLS files
reading into a matrix
writing from matrix
writing matrices into
sprintf
sqrt
sqrtm
square root
of a matrix
of array elements
of real numbers
squeeze
sscanf
stack, displaying
standard deviation
start
timer object
startat
timer object
startup
startup file
startup files
State
Uitoggletool property
Stateflow
printing diagram with frames
static text
std
stem3
step size (DDE)
initial step size
upper bound
step size (ODE) <1> <2>
initial step size
upper bound
stop
timer object
stopwatch timer
storage
allocated for nonzero entries (sparse)
sparse
storage allocation
str2cell
str2double
str2func
str2mat
str2num
strcat
strcmp
strcmpi
stream lines
computing 2-D
computing 3-D
drawing
stream2
stream3
stretch-to-fill 1688
strfind
String
Text property 1949
textarrow property
textbox property
Uicontrol property
string
comparing one to another
comparing the first n characters of two
converting from vector to
converting matrix into <1> <2>
converting to lowercase
converting to numeric array
converting to uppercase
dictionary sort of
finding first token in
searching and replacing
searching for
string matrix to cell array conversion
strings
converting to matrix (formatted)
inserting a quotation mark in
writing data to
strings
strjust
strmatch
strncmp
strncmpi
strread
strrep
strtok
strtrim
struct
struct2cell
structure array
field names of
getting contents of field of
remove field from
setting contents of a field of
strvcat
Style
Light property 1824
Uicontrol property
sub2ind
subfunction
subplot
subsasgn
subscripts
in axis title
in text strings 1952
subsindex
subspace
subsref
subsref (M-file function equivalent for A(i,j,k...))
substruct
subtraction (arithmetic operator)
subvolume
sum
cumulative
of array elements
sum
superiorto
superscripts
in axis title
in text strings 1952
support
surf
surf2patch
Surface
and contour plotter 1746
converting to a patch
creating 1912
defining default properties 1886, 1915 <1> <2>
plotting mathematical functions 1742
properties <1> <2>
surface 1912
surface normals, computing for volumes
surfc
surfl
surfnorm
svd
svds
switch
symamd
symbfact
symbols
operators
symbols in text 1950
symmlq
symmmd
symrcm
syntax
syntaxes
of M-file functions, defining
system
system directory, temporary
table lookup See interpolation
Tag
areaseries property
Axes property 1709
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
Figure property 1774
hggroup property 1802
hgtransform property 1815
Image property
Light property 1824
Line property 1839
lineseries property
Patch property 1877
quivergroup property
rectangle property 1894
Root property 1902
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
Surface property 1929
surfaceplot property
Text property 1952
Uicontextmenu property
Uicontrol property
Uimenu property
Uipushtool property
Uitoggletool property
Uitoolbar property
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
reading
writing
tan
tand
tangent
four-quadrant, inverse
hyperbolic
inverse
inverse hyperbolic
tanh
target, of camera
tempdir
tempname
temporary
files
system directory
tensor, Kronecker product
terminating MATLAB
test matrices
test, logical See logical tests and detecting <1> <2>
tetrahedron
mesh plot
tetramesh
TeX commands in text 1950
Text
creating 1931
defining default properties 1934
fixed-width font 1941
properties 1935
text
subscripts 1952
superscripts 1952
text 1931
editing
text mode for opened files
TextBackgroundColor
annotation textbarrow property
TextColor
annotation textbarrow property
TextEdgeColor
annotation textbarrow property
TextLineWidth
annotation textarrow property
TextList
contour property
TextListMode
contour property
TextMargin
annotation textbarrow property
textread
TextRotation, textarrow property
textscan
TextStep
contour property
TextStepMode
contour property
textwrap
tic
TickDir, Axes property 1709
TickDirMode, Axes property 1709
TickLength, Axes property 1709
TIFF
compression
encoding
ImageDescription field
maxvalue
parameters that can be set when writing
reading
resolution
writemode
writing
TIFF image format
specifying compression
tiling (copies of a matrix)
time
CPU
elapsed (stopwatch timer)
required to execute commands
time and date functions
timer
properties
timer
timer object
timerfind
timer object
timerfindall
timer object
times (M-file function equivalent for .*)
title
with superscript
title
Title, Axes property 1710
toc
todatenum
toeplitz
Toeplitz matrix
toggle buttons
token See also string
Toolbar
Figure property 1775
Toolbox
Spline
TooltipString
Uicontrol property
Uipushtool property
Uitoggletool property
trace
trace of a matrix <1> <2>
trailing blanks
removing
transform, Fourier
discrete, n-dimensional
discrete, one-dimensional
discrete, two-dimensional
inverse, n-dimensional
inverse, one-dimensional
inverse, two-dimensional
shifting the zero-frequency component of
transformation
See also conversion
transformations
elementary Hermite
transmitting file to FTP server
transparency chunk
in PNG files
transpose
array (arithmetic operator)
matrix (arithmetic operator)
transpose (M-file function equivalent for .')
trapz
treelayout
treeplot
triangulation
2-D plot
tricubic interpolation
tril
trilinear interpolation <1> <2> <3>
trimesh
triple integral
numerical evaluation
triplequad
triplot
trisurf
triu
true
truth tables (for logical operations)
try
tsearch
tsearchn
Type
areaseries property
Axes property 1710
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
Figure property 1775
hggroup property 1803
hgtransform property 1815
Image property
Light property 1825
Line property 1839
lineseries property
Patch property 1877
quivergroup property
rectangle property 1894
Root property 1902
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
Surface property 1929
surfaceplot property
Text property 1952
Uicontextmenu property
Uicontrol property
Uimenu property
Uipushtool property
Uitoggletool property
Uitoolbar property
type
UData
errorbar property
quivergroup property
UDataSource
errorbar property
quivergroup property
Uibuttongroup
defining default properties
uibuttongroup function
Uibuttongroup Properties
UIContextMenu
areaseries property
Axes property 1710
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
Figure property 1775
hggroup property 1803
hgtransform property 1815
Image property
Light property 1825
Line property 1839
lineseries property
Patch property 1877
quivergroup property
rectangle property 1894
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
Surface property 1929
surfaceplot property
Text property 1953
UiContextMenu
Uicontrol property
Uicontextmenu
Uicontextmenu property
uicontextmenu
Uicontextmenu Properties
Uicontrol
defining default properties
fixed-width font
types of
uicontrol
Uicontrol Properties
uigetdir
uigetfile
uigetpref function
uiimport
Uimenu
creating
defining default properties
Properties
uimenu
Uimenu Properties
uint8 <1> <2>
uint8, uint16, uint32, uint64
uiopen
Uipanel
defining default properties
uipanel function
Uipanel Properties
Uipushtool
defining default properties
uipushtool
Uipushtool Properties
uiputfile
uiresume
uisave
uisetcolor
uisetfont
uisetpref function
uistack
Uitoggletool
defining default properties
uitoggletool
Uitoggletool Properties
Uitoolbar
defining default properties
uitoolbar
Uitoolbar Properties
uiwait
uminus (M-file function equivalent for unary -)
unconstrained minimization
undefined numerical results
undocheckout
unicode2native
unimodular matrix
union
unique
unitary matrix (complex)
Units
Axes property 1710
Figure property 1775
Root property 1903
Text property 1952
Uicontrol property
UNIX
Web browser
unix
unlocking M-files
unmkpp
unwrap
unzip
up vector, of camera
updating figure during M-file execution 1720
uplus (M-file function equivalent for unary +)
upper
upper triangular matrix
uppercase to lowercase
url
opening in Web browser
urlread
urlwrite
UserData
areaseries property
Axes property 1711
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
Figure property 1776
hggroup property 1803
hgtransform property 1815
Image property
Light property 1825
Line property 1839
lineseries property
Patch property 1878
quivergroup property
rectangle property 1895
Root property 1903
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
Surface property 1929
surfaceplot property
Text property 1953
Uicontextmenu property
Uicontrol property
Uimenu property
Uipushtool property
Uitoggletool property
Uitoolbar property
Value, Uicontrol property
vander
Vandermonde matrix
var
varargout
variable numbers of M-file arguments
variable-order solver (ODE)
variables
checking existence of
clearing from workspace
global
graphical representation of
in workspace
listing
local <1> <2>
name of passed
opening <1> <2>
persistent
saving
sizes of
VData
quivergroup property
VDataSource
quivergroup property
vector
dot product
frequency
length of
product (cross)
vector field, plotting
vectorize
vectorize
vectorizing ODE function (BVP)
vectors, creating
logarithmically spaced
regularly spaced <1> <2>
velocity vectors, plotting
ver
verctrl function (Windows)
version
version numbers
displaying
returned as strings
vertcat
vertcat (M-file function equivalent for [;])
VertexNormals
Patch property 1878
Surface property 1929
surfaceplot property
VerticalAlignment, Text property 1953
VerticalAlignment, textarrow property
VerticalAlignment, textbox property
Vertices, Patch property 1878
video
saving in AVI format
view
azimuth of viewpoint
coordinate system defining
elevation of viewpoint
view
view angle, of camera
View, Axes property (obsolete) 1711
viewing
a group of object
a specific object in a scene
viewmtx
Visible
areaseries property
Axes property 1711
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
Figure property 1776
hggroup property 1803
hgtransform property 1815
Image property
Light property 1825
Line property 1839
lineseries property
Patch property 1878
quivergroup property
rectangle property 1895
Root property 1903
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
Surface property 1929
surfaceplot property
Text property 1954
Uicontextmenu property
Uicontrol property
Uimenu property
Uipushtool property
Uitoggletool property
Uitoolbar property
visualizing
cell array structure
sparse matrices
volumes
calculating isosurface data
computing 2-D stream lines
computing 3-D stream lines
computing isosurface normals
contouring slice planes
drawing stream lines
end caps
reducing face size in isosurfaces
reducing number of elements in
voronoi
Voronoi diagrams
multidimensional vizualization
two-dimensional vizualization
voronoin
wait
timer object
waitbar
waitfor
waitforbuttonpress
warndlg
warning
warning message (enabling, suppressing, and displaying)
waterfall
.wav files
reading
writing
waverecord
wavfinfo
wavplay
wavplay
wavread <1> <2>
wavrecord
wavwrite
WData
quivergroup property
WDataSource
quivergroup property
web
Web browser
displaying help in
pointing to file or url
specifying for UNIX
weekday
well conditioned
what
whatsnew
which
while
white space characters, ASCII <1> <2>
whitebg
Width
annotation ellipse property
annotation rectangle property
wilkinson
Wilkinson matrix <1> <2>
WindowButtonDownFcn, Figure property 1776
WindowButtonMotionFcn, Figure property 1776
WindowButtonUpFcn, Figure property 1777
Windows Cursor Resources (CUR)
reading
Windows Icon resources
reading
Windows Paintbrush files
reading
writing
WindowStyle, Figure property 1777
winopen
winqueryreg
WK1 files
loading
writing from matrix
wk1finfo
wk1read
wk1write
workspace
changing context while debugging <1> <2>
clearing items from
consolidating memory
predefining variables
saving
variables in
viewing contents of
workspace
workspace variables
reading from disk
writing
binary data to file
formatted data to file
WVisual, Figure property 1778
WVisualMode, Figure property 1780
X
annotation arrow property <1> <2>
annotation ellipse property
annotation line property
annotation rectangle property
annotation textarrow property
X Windows Dump files
reading
writing
x-axis limits, setting and querying
XAxisLocation, Axes property 1711
XColor, Axes property 1711
XData
areaseries property
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
Image property
Line property 1839
lineseries property
Patch property 1878
quivergroup property
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
Surface property 1930
surfaceplot property
XDataMode
areaseries property
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
lineseries property
quivergroup property
stairseries property
stem property
surfaceplot property
XDataSource
area property
areaseries property
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
lineseries property
quivergroup property
stairseries property
stem property
surfaceplot property
XDir, Axes property 1712
XDisplay, Figure property 1780
XGrid, Axes property 1712
xlabel
XLabel, Axes property 1712
xlim
XLim, Axes property 1713
XLimMode, Axes property 1713
XLS files
loading
xlsfinfo
xlsread
xlswrite
XMinorGrid, Axes property 1713
xmlread
xmlwrite
logical XOR
bit-wise
xor
XOR, printing <1> <2> <3> <4> <5> <6> <7> <8> <9> <10> <11> <12> <13> <14> <15> <16> <17>
XScale, Axes property 1713
xslt
XTick, Axes property 1713
XTickLabel, Axes property 1714
XTickLabelMode, Axes property 1714
XTickMode, Axes property 1714
XVisual, Figure property 1781
XVisualMode, Figure property 1782
XWD files
reading
writing
xyz coordinates See Cartesian coordinates <1> <2>
Y
annotation arrow property <1> <2> <3>
annotation ellipse property
annotation rectangle property
annotation textarrow property
y-axis limits, setting and querying
YAxisLocation, Axes property 1711
YColor, Axes property 1711
YData
areaseries property
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
Image property
Line property 1839
lineseries property
Patch property 1878
quivergroup property
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
Surface property 1930
surfaceplot property
YDataMode
contour property
quivergroup property
surfaceplot property
YDataSource
areaseries property
barseries property
contour property
errorbar property
lineseries property
quivergroup property
scatter property
stairseries property
stem property
surfaceplot property
YDir, Axes property 1712
YGrid, Axes property 1712
ylabel
YLabel, Axes property 1712
ylim
YLim, Axes property 1713
YLimMode, Axes property 1713
YMinorGrid, Axes property 1713
YScale, Axes property 1713
YTick, Axes property 1713
YTickLabel, Axes property 1714
YTickLabelMode, Axes property 1714
YTickMode, Axes property 1714
z-axis limits, setting and querying
ZColor, Axes property 1711
ZData
contour property
Line property 1839
lineseries property <1> <2>
Patch property 1878
quivergroup property
stemseries property
Surface property 1930
surfaceplot property
ZDataSource
contour property
lineseries property <1> <2> <3>
surfaceplot property
ZDir, Axes property 1712
zero of a function, finding
zeros
ZGrid, Axes property 1712
zip
zlabel
zlim
ZLim, Axes property 1713
ZLimMode, Axes property 1713
ZMinorGrid, Axes property 1713
zoom
ZScale, Axes property 1713
ZTick, Axes property 1713
ZTickLabel, Axes property 1714
ZTickLabelMode, Axes property 1714
ZTickMode, Axes property 1714