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What Does '/ Operator Do in Matlab?

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What Does '/ Operator Do in Matlab?

I am working on converting a MATLAB program to C and I don't know MATLAB at all.

I am trying to figure out this line of code:

var1=acos(v1true*varW1'/(norm(v1true)));

I know what ./ does, it causes MATLAB to divide term by term. But I don't know about '/. Can anyone tell me what '/ does in MATLAB?

3 Answers

As Brandon said, ' is the conjugate or Hermitian transpose (also known as linear algebraic transpose), and .' is the array transpose. For more information see MATLAB's Arithmetic Operators page.

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' is the conjugate or Hermitian transpose. If you wish to do a normal transpose, use .'

Yes, in your case you are taking transpose of varW1 dividing it with the norm(v1true) then multiplying it with v1true.

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