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Chapter 2: MATLAB Basics exp(-x) and sin(x)
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In current versions of MATLAB, fzero also accepts a string expression with independent variable x, so that we could have run the command above without using inline, but this feature is no longer documented in the help text for fzero and may be removed in future versions.
Vectors and Matrices MATLAB was written originally to allow mathematicians, scientists, and engineers to handle the mechanics of linear algebra — that is, vectors and matrices — as effortlessly as possible. In this section we introduce these concepts.