Steven Lord
MathWorks
I joined The MathWorks in the Technical Support department during the summer of 2001 and transferred into the Quality Engineering department in March of 2004. I now work qualifying the core MATLAB numerical functions (PLUS, MINUS, LU, FFT, ODE45, etc.)
Professional Interests: mathematics, MATLAB
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Delete Vector Element but Keep Vector Length
X = [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]; Y =[0,2,4,6,8,143,12,14,16,18,20]; [newY, removedOutliers] = rmoutliers(Y); newX = X; newX(rem...
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sprintf, round-off, floating point bug?
Regarding the newer messages in this discussion, see this Answers post.
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MATLAB Compiler Runtime (MCR) Wont Work
My first step would be contacting the author of that program and asking them for help determining why their program is crashing....
etwa 16 Stunden ago | 0
Possibility of decompiling .exe to m files by using eval function？
From the documentation "MATLAB Runtime only works on MATLAB code that was encrypted when the deployable archive was built. Any f...
etwa 16 Stunden ago | 0
Delete rows from a table using a condition on datetimes
For the sake of humans reading your code I'd be more explicit and give that 1 some units. rng default t = datetime('today') v...
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How can I speed up drawnow when combined with 'get' function?
So it sounds like you're trying to do horizontal panning. Is that correct? You can't actually pan the figure shown in this Answe...
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MATLAB won't launch (though installed and activated) on Mac Monterey
Please contact Technical Support and work with the Support staff to determine why MATLAB is not able to start on your machine.
3 Tage ago | 0
I need to create a script that demonstrates the use of this function
You've asked effectively this same question several times before just with different functions. Generalize the advice you recei...
3 Tage ago | 0
How can I use equations from a matrix, using symbolic variables, inside the function file for ode45 ?
It is possible to perform calculations using symbolic variables inside the function file whose handle you pass into ode45 as the...
3 Tage ago | 0
How do I create a (10,10) matrix containing numbers from 1 to 100?
Another solution using implicit expansion (which wasn't available back in 2013 when this question was posted): n = 10; A = (1:...
3 Tage ago | 0
How to edit matlab toolbox globaloptim
To get information on the progress of the solver change the Display, OutputFcn, and/or PlotFcn options when you call the ga func...
4 Tage ago | 1
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Is there a way to convert times in this format to double, so I can perform mathematical operations on them?
How do you know that 100 represents 1 PM instead of 1 AM? Would it make more sense to adjust x so it includes 1300 instead of 10...
4 Tage ago | 0
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Solllvinf first order dffnt eqn
If you're going to put spaces around the operators separating terms in the matrix you're creating in example, be consistent. y0...
5 Tage ago | 0
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Sprintf problems while trying to format a directory name followed by a string
The backslashes and the characters following them are being treated as escape-character sequences. See the second line in the de...
5 Tage ago | 2
Compiled App: previously accessible file is now inaccessible
From the documentation: "MATLAB Runtime only works on MATLAB code that was encrypted when the deployable archive was built. Any ...
8 Tage ago | 0
How to find the index of the minimum value in a matrix.
Since you're using release R2021b (according to the information listed on the right side of this page) you can use 'all' as the ...
9 Tage ago | 0
isequal command suddently stops working
So how different are the two datetime arrays you expected to be equal? Do they just look equal? T = datetime('today') N = date...
9 Tage ago | 1
How to call a function with multi variable in real coded GA in function handle and how to define upper and lower bound of that variable in matlab?
If you've defined Torque to accept 3 inputs as per the code at the end of this answer, you can still use that function in your g...
10 Tage ago | 0
calculate the minimum probability
Assuming they are the same class and size, you can concatenate them and call min with a dimension input. A = randi([-5, 5], 4) ...
10 Tage ago | 0
Write sections of a long string as new lines in a text document
sub = 'XYZYXYZYZYZXYZYXYZ0XYXYXYX'; sub2 = replace(sub, '0', newline)
11 Tage ago | 1
bitget function working explanation needed
Here's an unsigned 8-bit integer. x = 0b10011010u8 % x is 10011010 The lowest order bit of x is 0. This makes sense since x is...
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How can I create this script??
If you're trying to create examples like the ones in this part of the documentation take a look at the tools described on this d...
15 Tage ago | 0
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How to turn a function handle with 3 inputs (1 variable and 2 parameters) and then assign the inputs parameters and get a function handle with one input? ?
Let's look at the actual time difference between the two approaches. y=1; z=1; f=@(x,y,z)x+y+z; g=@(x)f(x,y,z); h = @(x) x+...
15 Tage ago | 0
how can I plot in symbolic math with defined x axis limit and Y axis limit with marker at specific points
syms x T=[1 x x^2 x^3]; l=1; N=[1 0 0 0;0 1 0 0;-3/l^2 -2/l 3/l^2 -1/l;2/l^3 1/l^2 -2/l^3 1/l^2]; g=[1 2 3 4]'; f=T*N*g; ...
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How to generate random coordinates and store the values?
The easiest solution is not to use a for loop at all. p = randi([-10 10], 5, 2) If you must use a for loop, preallocate p to b...
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Standard keyboard shortcut editor
You can customize the keyboard shortcuts via the Preferences window. You can change individual actions or you can change between...
16 Tage ago | 1
Can't create a folder outside of the current directory
Use fullfile instead of manually concatenating the path and file name then use the function form of mkdir rather than the comman...
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Standolane application is not working like in app designer
That picture suggests there is an issue but it doesn't say anything about what that issue is. Can you review the log file linked...
19 Tage ago | 0
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hi i want to ask,why matlab cannot process the condition for the while loop ? Thank you!
Since you're using the short-circuiting or operator you should check the size of the inputs first. Rather than asking if they're...
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