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MATLAB was originally developed as a high level interface to a set of matrix computation library routines. As mentioned in the preface to the book the acronym MATLAB actually stands for MATrix LABoratory. Therefore, the basic data structure in MATLAB is a two-dimensional matrix containing real or complex floating point numbers. Most functionality in MATLAB is provided for operating on this two-dimensional matrix data structure. Character arrays is another data type available in the MATLAB environment. Character arrays are used for storing text data. However, as discussed in Section 4, the character array is actually stored in MATLAB as a vector of numbers defined by the ASCII-code of the characters in the string.
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Gustafsson, F., Bergman, N. (2003). Advanced Programming. In: MATLAB® for Engineers Explained. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0029-4_2
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