Matlab integrates mathematical computing, visualization, and a powerful language to provide a flexible environment for technical computing.

Matlab has an open architecture that makes it easy to use, and its companion products to explore data, create algorithms, and create custom tools that provide early insights and competitive advantages.

MATLAB is a high-level technical computing language and interactive environment for algorithm development, data visualization, data analysis, and numeric computation. Using the MATLAB product, you can solve technical computing problems faster than with traditional programming languages, such as C, C++, and Fortran.

You can use MATLAB in a wide range of applications, including signal and image processing, communications, control design, test and measurement, financial modeling and analysis, and computational biology.

Add-on toolboxes (collections of special-purpose MATLAB functions, available separately) extend the MATLAB environment to solve particular classes of problems in these application areas.

MATLAB provides a number of features for documenting and sharing your work. You can integrate your MATLAB code with other languages and applications, and distribute your MATLAB algorithms and applications.

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Here are some key features of "Matlab":

· High-level language for technical computing
· Development environment for managing code, files, and data
· Interactive tools for iterative exploration, design, and problem solving
· Mathematical functions for linear algebra, statistics, Fourier analysis, filtering, optimization, and numerical integration
· 2-D and 3-D graphics functions for visualizing data
· Tools for building custom graphical user interfaces
· Functions for integrating MATLAB based algorithms with external applications and languages, such as C, C++, Fortran, Java, COM, and Microsoft Excel

Requirements:

· Disk Space: 510 MB.
· RAM: 512 MB (1024 MB recommended).
· X11 (X server) for Mac OS X.
· Java Runtime Environment 1.5 Release 4
· TCP/IP is required on all platforms when using a license server.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

Development Environment:
· New File Exchange desktop tool (4:51), providing direct access to user-contributed files on MATLAB Central
· Enhanced Plot Selector in the Workspace browser (3:26), providing access to additional plot types and customization of plot favorites
· Enhanced Current Folder browser (2:18), providing improved navigation, display, and searching for files
· Customizable keyboard shortcuts (4:15), including consistent defaults for the MATLAB Editor and Command Window
· Enhanced Help browser (1:21), providing more detailed search results with grouping by product and result type
· Expanded MATLAB file publishing (0:38), providing support for PDF as an output file format

Language and Programming:
· Ability to specify unused input and output arguments (2:49) to a function with the tilde (~) character

File I/O and External Interfacing:
· mmreader function expanded to support Motion JPEG 2000 files
· New Tiff object to write tiled images and a broad set of metadata within TIFF files
· Expanded low-level HDF5 file access to support H5L, H5O, and H5DS interfaces
· Support for MATLAB scalar indexing into Microsoft .NET Framework arrays

Performance and Large Data Set Handling:
· Ability to perform FFTs on vectors larger than 2 GB
· Multithreaded computation support for sort, filter, bsxfun, sparse matrix QR decomposition, gamma functions, and error functions
· Sparse matrix performance improvements for basic math, binary and relational operators, and exponential functions