1.1. Introduction
MATLAB developed by The MathWorks Inc., stands for Matrix Laboratory. It is a software package used to perform scientific computations and visualization. Its capability for analysis of various scientific problems, flexibility and powerful graphics makes it a very useful software package. It provides an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for programming with numerous predefined functions for technical computations and visualization. Besides available built-in functions, user-defined functions can also be included which can be used just like any other built-in function.
Figure 1.1 shows various products of The MathWorks Inc. MATLAB provides an excellent computational language, built-in state-of-the-art algorithms for mathematics ...
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