The basic operation for octave

4 basic mathematics operations

5 + 7
ans = 12

8 - 3
ans = 5

6 * 3
ans = 18

1/3
ans = 0.33333

2^4
ans = 16

3 basic logistics operations

1 ~= 2
ans = 1

1 == 2
ans = 0

1 &&0
ans = 0

1 || 4
ans = 1

xor(1, 0)
ans = 1

The basic uses for variables

a = 3
a = 3

a = 5; % semicolon suppressing output

a = ‘hi’
a = hi

a = pi
a = 3.1416

disp(a)
3.1416

disp(sprintf(‘2 decimals: %0.2f’, a))
2 decimals: 3.14

format long
a
a = 3.141592653589793

a = [1 2; 3 4; 5 6]
a =
1 2
3 4
5 6

v = [1 2 4]
v =
1 2 4

(v’)’
ans =
1 2 4

v = 1:0.1:2
v =
Columns 1 through 4:
1.000000000000000 1.100000000000000 1.200000000000000 1.300000000000000
Columns 5 through 8:
1.400000000000000 1.500000000000000 1.600000000000000 1.700000000000000
Columns 9 through 11:
1.800000000000000 1.900000000000000 2.000000000000000

v =- 1:5
v =
-1 0 1 2 3 4 5

ones(2, 3)
ans =
1 1 1
1 1 1

c = 2 * ones(2, 3)
c =
2 2 2
2 2 2

eye(3)
ans =
Diagonal Matrix
1 0 0
0 1 0
0 0 1\

rand(3, 3)
ans =
0.411327 0.048251 0.520388
0.436561 0.625215 0.394285
0.543362 0.511269 0.920021

randn(1, 3)
ans =
1.53855 -0.72854 -0.19124