AME 150L Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Row And Column Vectors, Strong And Weak Typing

• School: USC
• Department: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
• Course: AME 150L
• Professor: Domoradzki

Document Summary

Ame 150: introduction to computational methods - lecture 2: variables/arrays. Types: double: 64-bit double-precision floating point number (are values, not characters) ex. var=10. 5; Range: +/- 10 308:1 0308 character (char): scalars and arrays consisting of 16-bit values ex. var="this is a character string". Matlab is a weakly typed language where the type of the data assigned to the variable determines the type of variable. Initializing variables using the assignment statement: var = expression name of memory space; assignment statement; content you want placed in that space. Predetermined arrays: a=zeros(#): creates a square array (unless otherwise specified) of zeros ex. zeros(2) 0 0.