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MATLAB is a high-level language and interactive environment that enables you to perform computationally intensive tasks faster than with traditional programming languages such as C, C++, and Fortran.
What's New
Version 7.12 (reports as 2.1 in the Finder):
Development Environment
- Improvements to Mac® platform look and feel, including placement of the MATLAB menu bar at the top of the screen
- Redesigned Plot Catalog (4:14) that makes it easier to browse and discover both relevant and available plots, including toolbox plots
- Submission of support requests (2:06) to MathWorks Technical Support from within MATLAB
- Comparison Tool that highlights and merges differences in MAT-file variable values and excludes specified files, folders, and unchanged text
- Custom creation of MATLAB classes whose objects can be combined into heterogeneous arrays
- New copyable class, providing default copy behavior for custom handle classes
- Performance improvements for matrix transpose, element-wise single precision functions, sparse matrix indexed assignment, and many linear algebra functions
- rng function (5:50) for controlling random number generation
- ichol function for incomplete Cholesky factorization
- New functions for reading and writing NetCDF and HDF5 files
Version 7.12 (reports as 2.1 in the Finder):
Development Environment
- Improvements to Mac® platform look and feel, including placement of the MATLAB menu bar at the top of the screen
- Redesigned Plot Catalog (4:14) that makes it easier to browse and discover both relevant and available plots, including toolbox plots
- Submission of support requests (2:06) to MathWorks Technical more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.4 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.4 or later
MATLAB R2011a User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:39,439 |
| Version Downloads:9,437 |
| Type:Education : Mathematics |
| License:Demo |
| Date:08 Apr 2011 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $2,100.00 |
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MATLAB is a high-level language and interactive environment that enables you to perform computationally intensive tasks faster than with traditional programming languages such as C, C++, and Fortran.
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melager reviewed on 04 Oct 2011
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Karenbindash reviewed on 23 Oct 2010
A professional user could easily need to spend $15,000 to get all the toolboxes they need. Often one toolbox requires several others to be installed too. The price rockets up.
The symbolic toolbox for MATLAB, adds symbolic capabilities, but it is clear this was not developed initially for MATLAB, but was sold as another product, and the company than acquired by Mathworks. It does not feel very nicely integrated into MATLAB, and although I have access to it, I soon gave up and use Mathematica when I want symbolic maths, as Mathematica is much stronger at symbolics.
For numerical work, this is an industry standard and well worth learning to use well. But there are alternatives someone should consider
1) Octave is a free Clone. It is not 100% MATLAB compatible, but is quite close. However, from a students point of view, I'd rather learn MATLAB as that's what employers want.
But if money is tight, Octave is a very viable alternative.
2) Sage - open source, and free, but too buggy. I would not trust any result from Sage.
3) Mathematica - more expensive, but more complete, but not as easy to use as MATLAB. There is a "home edition" of this too, which is excellent value for money if you want it for hobby use.
4) Maple - Like Mathematica, this is better at symbolics than MATLAB with the symbolic maths toolbox. But I feel Mathematica is better than Maple, so I don't really consider Maple worth bothering with.
5) R - for statistics this can't be beaten, and is free too.
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Other people have to fill a detailed request. Then they are told that "A MathWorks representative will contact you to discuss your needs and provide access to trial software."
I know what I need : a free demo not a discussant about my needs !
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Xplicit reviewed on 07 Mar 2009
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taoeffect reviewed on 06 Mar 2009
Its language is very easy to work with, well designed. People with limited programming experience should be able to pick it up easily.
The built-in documentation is top class as well. I've compared it with Mathematica's documentation, and it blows it away. It's easy to search, comprehensive, and the examples work.
Matlab makes it painfully easy to manipulate and visualize data, and run various experiments. Its full capabilities are rarely tapped, as it can even integrate with various other languages. If you're looking for a product that makes it easy to do hard things, look no further.
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gregwelch reviewed on 09 Oct 2008
"Value" (rating) is hard for me to judge because my university has a site license.
While there are things to complain about, I for one am very pleased to have it on the Mac, and working quite well (albeit a little clunkily) for my needs.
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MBHockey reviewed on 01 Mar 2007
It's not really on the same scale as Matlab but it's free. It provides a language with array constructs and includes simple visualization. I find it surprisingly powerful and have used it for tasks that others have used Matlab for.