MATLAB is a proprietary multi-paradigm programming language and numeric computing environment developed by MathWorks.
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17 Facts About MATLAB
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MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages.
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MATLAB was invented by mathematician and computer programmer Cleve Moler.
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MATLAB developed MATLAB's initial linear algebra programming in 1967 with his one-time thesis advisor, George Forsythe.
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Early versions of MATLAB were simple matrix calculators with 71 pre-built functions.
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MATLAB was first released as a commercial product in 1984 at the Automatic Control Conference in Las Vegas.
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The first MATLAB sale was the following year, when Nick Trefethen from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology bought ten copies.
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Over time, MATLAB was re-written for early operating systems created by Digital Equipment Corporation, VAX, Sun Microsystems, and for Unix PCs.
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The first MATLAB compiler was developed by Stephen C Johnson in the 1990s.
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In 2000, MathWorks added a Fortran-based library for linear algebra in MATLAB 6, replacing the software's original LINPACK and EISPACK subroutines that were in C MATLAB's Parallel Computing Toolbox was released at the 2004 Supercomputing Conference and support for graphics processing units was added to it in 2010.
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Common usage of the MATLAB application involves using the "Command Window" as an interactive mathematical shell or executing text files containing MATLAB code.
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MATLAB is a weakly typed programming language because types are implicitly converted.
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For example, mod will multiply every element in J by 2, and then reduce each element modulo n MATLAB does include standard for and while loops, but, using the vectorized notation is encouraged and is often faster to execute.
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Since all variables in MATLAB are arrays, a more adequate name is "structure array", where each element of the array has the same field names.
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MATLAB has value classes and reference classes, depending on whether the class has handle as a super-class or not .
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MATLAB can call functions and subroutines written in a programming languages C or Fortran.
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In 2020, MATLAB withdrew services from two Chinese universities as a result of US sanctions.
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