pack
- Padé approximation (of matrix exponential)
- paging
- controlling output in command window <1> <2>
PaperOrientation
PaperPosition
PaperPositionMode
PaperSize
PaperType
PaperUnits
Parent
- Axes object
- Figure object
- Image object
- Light object
- Line object
- Patch object
- Surface object
- Text object
- Uicontrol object
- Uimenu object
- parentheses (special characters)
- Parlett's method (of evaluating matrix functions)
- partial fraction expansion
- partialpath
pascal
- Pascal matrix <1> <2>
- Patch
- creating
- defining default properties
- properties
patch
path
- pathname
- of functions or files
- partial
- See also search path
pause
- pausing M-file execution
pcg
pcode
pcolor
- percent sign (special characters)
- period (
.), to distinguish matrix and array operations
- period (special characters)
perms
- permutation
- of array dimensions
- matrix <1> <2>
- random
- permutations of
n elements
permute
- phase, complex
- correcting angles
pi
- pi (
) <1> <2> <3>
pie
pie3
pinv
- platform See computers
plot
- plot, volumetric
- generating grid arrays for
PlotBoxAspectRatio
PlotBoxAspectRatioMode
- plotting See visualizing
plus (M-file function equivalent for +)
Pointer
PointerLocation
PointerShapeCData
PointerShapeHotSpot
PointerWindow
pol2cart
polar
- polar coordinates <1> <2> <3>
- poles of transfer function
poly
polyarea
polyder
polyeig
polyfit
- polygon
- area of
- detecting points inside
- polynomial
- characteristic <1> <2> <3>
- coefficients (transfer function)
- curve fitting with
- derivative of
- division
- eigenvalue problem
- evaluation
- evaluation (matrix sense)
- multiplication
polyval
polyvalm
- poorly conditioned
- eigenvalues
- matrix
Position
- Axes object
- Figure object
- Light object
- Text object
- Uicontrol object
- Uimenu object
pow2
- power
- matrix See matrix exponential
- of two, next
power (M-file function equivalent for .^)
- precedence of operators
- prime factors
- dependence of Fourier transform on
- prime numbers <1> <2>
primes
print
- printing, suppressing
prod
- product
- cumulative
- Kronecker tensor
- of array elements
- of vectors (cross)
- scalar (dot)
Profile
profile
ProfileFile
ProfileFunction
ProfileInterval
ProjectionType
K>> prompt
- prompting users for input <1> <2>
- pseudoinverse