What is wrong with this arithmetic array?

function modifiedReadings = CalibrateReadings(originalReadings, adjustVal)
% originalReadings: Array of temperature readings 
% adjustVal: Value added to each element in the array of temperature readings

     % Add adjustVal to each element of array originalReadings
     modifiedReadings = [originalReadings adjustVal]

end

[John D'Errico]

Why do you think there is something wrong?

[Blair Hall]

I do not know. That is what matlab says.

[per isakson]

• How did you call the function?
• Show the full error message.

[Blair Hall]

here it is

[Jan]

@Blair: You get the message, that for the input

[51, 53, 61, 62]

the output of your function is

[51, 53, 61, 62, 1]

but the wanted output is

[52, 54, 62, 63]

The instruction was to "add a value to the elements of the input". And than you ask in the forum? Something is going really wrong here.

Do you have problems to understand the meaning of the question? Then a Matlab forum is not the right location to solve this. The forum will not solve all these very basic questions for you, because this is your homework (or job, or interest).

Answer 1

[Jan]

The instructions are clear:

Add adjustVal to each element of array originalReadings

"add" means the + operation, not a concatenation with the square brackets.

This problem is very basic. Usually the members of the forum ask problems concerning Matlab functions and algorithms. But here it seems to me, like the problem is the understanding of English. Is it a problem of the language?

I don't know, what an "arithmetic array" is.