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Matrix operations: Basics and Manipulation

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This lecture covers basic matrix operations in MATLAB and Octave for beginners, including matrix concatenation, sum (for matrices of the same size), multiplication by a scalar, and manipulation techniques like extraction, transpose, and special matrices such as zeros, ones, and identity matrices. The instructor demonstrates these concepts through practical examples and explains the process step by step.

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MATLAB and Octave for Beginners

The course you are about to follow is an introduction to à Octave and MATLAB®. Both of these softwares follow the same structure, it is therefore obvious to present them together. This course is aimed at beginners, it began as an introduction to MATLAB for second year students at EPFL following a numerical analysis course.

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