MATLAB Programming Fundamentals - MathWorks

MATLAB Operators and Special Characters

This page contains a comprehensive listing of all MATLAB operators, symbols, and special

characters.

Arithmetic Operators

Symbol Role More Information

+ Addition plus

+ Unary plus uplus

• Subtraction minus


• Unary minus uminus
  .* Element-wise multiplication times

• Matrix multiplication mtimes
  ./ Element-wise right division rdivide
  / Matrix right division mrdivide
  .\ Element-wise left division ldivide

\

Matrix left division

(also known as backslash)

mldivide

.^ Element-wise power power

^ Matrix power mpower

.' Transpose transpose

' Complex conjugate transpose ctranspose

Relational Operators

Symbol Role More Information

== Equal to eq

~= Not equal to ne

> Greater than gt

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