## Introduction

MATLAB is a software package designed for mathematical and scientific computing. It is also a development environment and a programming language. Its primary specialization is efficiently handling matrix and vector mathematics.

You can think of MATLAB[1] as one of the most useful programs in the engineering fields. It deals with the numbers as a matrices, so, that is why the first part of its name is the first three later of the matrix, and the other part of its name is LAP, which is represents the short cut of Laboratory. It is designed to help you manipulate very large sets of numbers quickly and with minimal programming. Operations on numbers can be done efficiently by storing them as matrices. MATLAB is particularly good at doing matrix operations (this is the origin of its name).

## Notes

1. MATLAB: MATrix LABoratory