element by element division of two matrices not producing expected result

Dear Matlab community,

I have two large matrices. I would like to calculate the percentage reduction, as each matrix represents values at two time points (for example let's name them matrix1 and matrix2).

Accordingly, I would like to do the following operation: ((matrix1 - matrix2) ./ matrix1) x 100

The subtraction works as expected. For example, the very last element is: -0.9107 - (-0.4302) = -0.4806

However, when then dividing this subtraction matrix by matrix 1, all the elements are around 0.0001.

The last element should be equal to 0.5276 before being multiplied by 100.

Any suggestions as to what I may be doing wrong?

Thank you.

Answer 1

[Matt J]

I suspect you are simply being confused because Matlab is displaying everything in 4-decimal scientific notation, such as in the following:

>> [10000,0.5]

ans =

   1.0e+04 *

    1.0000    0.0001

If you didn't see the 1.0e+04 out front, you might think the second number was 0.0001.

[Prabhjot Dhami]

You are exactly right. This is a bit embarrassing...

Thank you!