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Builtin Matlab Functions

This document provides summaries of built-in functions and operators in MATLAB. It lists common mathematical functions like trigonometric, exponential, complex functions and rounding functions. It also describes arithmetic, relational, logical and special operators. Bitwise and set operators are also included.

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Builtin Matlab Functions

This document provides summaries of built-in functions and operators in MATLAB. It lists common mathematical functions like trigonometric, exponential, complex functions and rounding functions. It also describes arithmetic, relational, logical and special operators. Bitwise and set operators are also included.

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Built-In Functions and Help in Matlab

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Elementary math functions.
Trigonometric.
sin - Sine.
sind - Sine of argument in degrees.
sinh - Hyperbolic sine.
asin - Inverse sine.
asind - Inverse sine, result in degrees.
asinh - Inverse hyperbolic sine.
cos - Cosine.
cosd - Cosine of argument in degrees.
cosh - Hyperbolic cosine.
acos - Inverse cosine.
acosd - Inverse cosine, result in degrees.
acosh - Inverse hyperbolic cosine.
tan - Tangent.
tand - Tangent of argument in degrees.
tanh - Hyperbolic tangent.
atan - Inverse tangent.
atand - Inverse tangent, result in degrees.
atan2 - Four quadrant inverse tangent.
atan2d - Four quadrant inverse tangent, result in degrees.
atanh - Inverse hyperbolic tangent.
sec - Secant.
secd - Secant of argument in degrees.
sech - Hyperbolic secant.
asec - Inverse secant.
asecd - Inverse secant, result in degrees.
asech - Inverse hyperbolic secant.
csc - Cosecant.
cscd - Cosecant of argument in degrees.
csch - Hyperbolic cosecant.
acsc - Inverse cosecant.
acscd - Inverse cosecant, result in degrees.
acsch - Inverse hyperbolic cosecant.
cot - Cotangent.
cotd - Cotangent of argument in degrees.
coth - Hyperbolic cotangent.
acot - Inverse cotangent.
acotd - Inverse cotangent, result in degrees.
acoth - Inverse hyperbolic cotangent.
hypot - Square root of sum of squares.
deg2rad - Convert angles from degrees to radians.
rad2deg - Convert angles from radians to degrees.

Exponential.
exp - Exponential.
expm1 - Compute exp(x)-1 accurately.
log - Natural logarithm.
log1p - Compute log(1+x) accurately.
log10 - Common (base 10) logarithm.
log2 - Base 2 logarithm and dissect floating point number.
pow2 - Base 2 power and scale floating point number.
realpow - Power that will error out on complex result.
reallog - Natural logarithm of real number.
realsqrt - Square root of number greater than or equal to zero.
sqrt - Square root.
nthroot - Real n-th root of real numbers.
nextpow2 - Next higher power of 2.

Complex.
abs - Absolute value.
angle - Phase angle.
complex - Construct complex data from real and imaginary parts.
conj - Complex conjugate.
imag - Complex imaginary part.
real - Complex real part.
unwrap - Unwrap phase angle.
isreal - True for real array.
cplxpair - Sort numbers into complex conjugate pairs.

Rounding and remainder.


fix - Round towards zero.
floor - Round towards minus infinity.
ceil - Round towards plus infinity.
round - Round towards nearest integer.
mod - Modulus (signed remainder after division).
rem - Remainder after division.
sign - Signum.

Type: help ops

Operators and special characters.

Arithmetic operators.
plus - Plus +
uplus - Unary plus +
minus - Minus -
uminus - Unary minus -
mtimes - Matrix multiply *
times - Array multiply .*
mpower - Matrix power ^
power - Array power .^
mldivide - Backslash or left matrix divide \
mrdivide - Slash or right matrix divide /
ldivide - Left array divide .\
rdivide - Right array divide ./
idivide - Integer division with rounding option.
kron - Kronecker tensor product
Relational operators.
eq - Equal ==
ne - Not equal ~=
lt - Less than <
gt - Greater than >
le - Less than or equal <=
ge - Greater than or equal >=

Logical operators.
relop - Short-circuit logical AND &&
relop - Short-circuit logical OR ||
and - Element-wise logical AND &
or - Element-wise logical OR |
not - Logical NOT ~
punct - Ignore function argument or output ~
xor - Logical EXCLUSIVE OR
any - True if any element of vector is nonzero
all - True if all elements of vector are nonzero

Special characters.
colon - Colon :
paren - Parentheses and subscripting ()
paren - Brackets []
paren - Braces and subscripting {}
punct - Function handle creation @
punct - Decimal point .
punct - Structure field access .
punct - Parent directory ..
punct - Continuation ...
punct - Separator ,
punct - Semicolon ;
punct - Comment %
punct - Invoke operating system command !
punct - Assignment =
punct - Quote '
punct - Double quote "
transpose - Transpose .'
ctranspose - Complex conjugate transpose '
horzcat - Horizontal concatenation [,]
vertcat - Vertical concatenation [;]
subsasgn - Subscripted assignment ( ),{ },.
subsref - Subscripted reference ( ),{ },.
numArgumentsFromSubscript - Number of arguments for indexing
methods
subsindex - Subscript index
metaclass - Metaclass for MATLAB class ?

Bitwise operators.
bitand - Bit-wise AND.
bitcmp - Complement bits.
bitor - Bit-wise OR.
bitxor - Bit-wise XOR.
bitset - Set bit.
bitget - Get bit.
bitshift - Bit-wise shift.

Set operators.
union - Set union.
unique - Set unique.
intersect - Set intersection.
setdiff - Set difference.
setxor - Set exclusive-or.
ismember - True for set member.

See also arith, relop, slash, function_handle.

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