MATLAB Guide Errors
In the list below, line numbers do not include tables.
First Printing
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Two changes reflecting differences between the pre-release version used to
prepare the book and the final release:
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Page 4, line -1: the residual is 8.8818e-016
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Page 5, in the eigenvector matrix V the numbers in the second two columns
should be minus the values shown.
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Page 15, lrun.m: in the call to ode45 the argument should be
@lorenzde and not 'lorenzde'.
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Page 28, line -1 and page 29, line 1:
replace sentence
`A Load Wizard, accessible from the File-Load Data menu option,'
with
`An Import Wizard, accessible from the File-Import Data menu option.
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Page 122, line 11: replace `six' by `five'.
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Page 136, line -5: should be `quotient x^2-4x+4'.
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Page 138: line -16, `2pi' should be `pi' and in Figure 11.2 the final
x-axis tick label should be `pi'.
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Page 146, line -14: should read `2001 equally spaced points'
and lines 3 and 4 of the code should be
t = linspace(0,4*pi,n+1);
for i=1:n
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Page 196, line - 3:
replace `that is displayed in the Help Browser' by
`that is displayed in the system's default Web browser'.
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Page 238, lines 1 and 8 are correct,
but are equivalently and more concisely expressed as
>> x = vpa('exp(1)',d)
>> y = vpa(exp(1),d)
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Page 263, replace `Launchpad' with `Launch Pad'.
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Back cover: in the term `Handle Graphics' the `g' should be capitalized.
Second Printing
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Page 145, the default value of tol for quad
and quadl is 1e-6.
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Page 157, line 6: replace `yfox(i)' by `yfox(i,:)'.
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