Appendix: MATLAB® characters, operators and commands
Characters, arithmetic, rational and logical operators
| Character, operator | Description | Page(s) |
| + | Addition | 6, 19 |
| – | Subtraction | 6 |
| * | Scalar and matrix multiplication | 6, 20 |
| .* | Element-wise multiplication | 28 |
| / | Right division | 6, 26 |
| \ | Left division | 6, 26 |
| ./ | Element-wise right division | 28 |
| .\ | Element-wise left division | 28 |
| ^ | Exponentiation | 6 |
| .^ | Element-wise exponentiation | 28 |
| = | Assignment | 6 |
| % | Percent; use for comments and for output format specification | 6, 11 |
| () | Parentheses; use for input arguments and in matrix addressing | 6, 15, 18 |
| [] | Brackets; use for vector, matrix, array elements input | 15, 17 |
| (space) | Space; separates elements into arrays, and adds into output specifications ... |
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