uses of 'zeros' and 'ones' function ?
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hello all, what are the main uses of functions 'zeros' and 'ones' ? Why we use them ? thank you
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James Tursa
on 6 Nov 2015
A couple of examples.
zeros is often used to allocate a variable to a known size, then downstream code will fill in the individual elements. E.g.,
x = zeros(1,5); % Pre-allocate x to the correct size
for k=1:5
x(k) = k^2; % Fill in the individual elements
end
ones could be used to allocate a variable with a constant. E.g.,
x = ones(1,5) * 7; % Allocate a variable and fill it with 7's
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Marcus Sandquist Lignell
on 6 Nov 2015
In addition to this, when using for loops; pre-allocating a matrix in the correct size for the output results will speed up your solve time.
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Dimithra Anton
on 13 Sep 2020
Edited: Dimithra Anton
on 13 Sep 2020
zeros(length(numbers),2)
what about this??? what does (numbers) do and why is the number of columns 6?
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Steven Lord
on 13 Sep 2020
numbers is an array that is being passed into the length function (or it is a function that can be called with no input arguments and whose first output is being passed into the length function.)
I would not expect that command to return an array with six columns. Assuming you haven't written or downloaded a zeros.m function that is taking precedence over the built-in function it should return a matrix with two columns.
which -all zeros
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