Re: vector manipulation

On 2/19/2013 5:38 PM, Raymundo Marcos-Martinez wrote:
> "Elnaz " <ebsadeghian@gmail.com> wrote in message
> <kftvaa$j37$1@newscl01ah.mathworks.com>...
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>> I want to subtract all the elements of a vector from an scalar
>> one-by-one to get a scalar and I want to avoid looping. For example
>> say I want to do 8-[1 2] to get 8-1-2=5. How can I do that?
>>
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> I am sure there is a more elegant and general answer. In the meantime ...
>
> a = 8;
> b = [1 2];
> x = a - b(1) - b(2); % --> a-(???)

doc sum % again... :)

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