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MATLAB® is a software package developed by The MathWorks Inc. (http://www.mathworks.com) founded by Cleve Moler and Jack Little in 1984 and headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts. MATLAB was designed to perform mathematical calculations, to analyze and visualize data, and write new software programs. The advantage of this software is the combination of comprehensive math and graphics functions with a powerful high-level language. Since MATLAB contains a large library of ready-to-use routines for a wide range of applications, the user can solve technical computing problems much faster than with traditional programming languages, such as C++ and FORTRAN. The standard library of functions can be significantly expanded by add-on toolboxes, which are collections of functions for special purposes such as image processing, building map displays, performing geospatial data analysis or solving partial differential equations.
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Trauth, M.H. (2007). Introduction to MATLAB. In: MATLAB® Recipes for Earth Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72749-1_2
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