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What is MATLAB?

8 October, 2015 - 17:29

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MATLAB stands for MATrix LABoratory (see Wikipedia 2) and is a commercial software application written by The MathWorks, Inc. 3 When you first use MATLAB, you can think of it as a glorified calculator allowing you to perform engineering calculations and plot data. However, MATLAB is more than an advanced scientific calculator, for example MATLAB’s sophisticated numerical computation environment also allows us to analyze data, simulate engineering systems, document and share our code with others.