External Interfaces

Data Storage

All MATLAB data is stored columnwise, which is how Fortran stores matrices. MATLAB uses this convention because it was originally written in Fortran. For example, given the matrix

• a=['house'; 'floor'; 'porch']
  a =
     house
     floor
     porch
  

its dimensions are

• size(a)
  ans =
       3     5
  

and its data is stored as

MATLAB Data

Data Types in MATLAB

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