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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Torsten Werner
  • Date: 2005-01-09 22:58:21 UTC
  • mfrom: (1.1.1 upstream)
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20050109225821-473xr8vhgugxxx5j
Tags: 3.0-12
changed configure.in to build scilab's own malloc.o, closes: #255869

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
 
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<!DOCTYPE MAN SYSTEM "../../manrev.dtd">
 
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<MAN>
 
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  <LANGUAGE>eng</LANGUAGE>
 
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  <TITLE>minus</TITLE>
 
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  <TYPE>Scilab Function</TYPE>
 
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  <DATE>April 1993</DATE>
 
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  <SHORT_DESCRIPTION name="minus"> (-)  substraction operator, sign changes</SHORT_DESCRIPTION>
 
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  <CALLING_SEQUENCE>
 
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    <CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>X-Y</CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>
 
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    <CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>-Y</CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>
 
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  </CALLING_SEQUENCE>
 
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  <PARAM>
 
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    <PARAM_INDENT>
 
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      <PARAM_ITEM>
 
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        <PARAM_NAME>X</PARAM_NAME>
 
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        <PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
 
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          <SP>: scalar or vector or matrix of numbers, polynomials or rationals. It may also be a <VERB>syslin</VERB> list</SP>
 
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        </PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
 
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      </PARAM_ITEM>
 
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      <PARAM_ITEM>
 
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        <PARAM_NAME>Y</PARAM_NAME>
 
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        <PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
 
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          <SP>: scalar or vector or matrix of numbers, polynomials or rationals. It may also be a <VERB>syslin</VERB> list</SP>
 
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        </PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
 
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      </PARAM_ITEM>
 
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    </PARAM_INDENT>
 
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  </PARAM>
 
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  <DESCRIPTION>
 
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    <P>
 
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    Substraction</P>
 
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    <P>
 
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    For numeric operands substraction as its usual meaning.
 
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    If one of the operands is a matrix and the other one a scalar the
 
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    the operation is performed element-wise. if <VERB>Y==[] X</VERB>  is returned;
 
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    if <VERB>X==[] -Y</VERB>  is returned.</P>
 
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    <P>
 
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    Substraction may also be defined for other data types through
 
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    &quot;soft-coded&quot; operations.</P>
 
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  </DESCRIPTION>
 
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  <EXAMPLE>
 
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<![CDATA[
 
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[1,2]-1
 
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[]-2
 
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%s-2
 
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1/%s-2
 
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"cat"+"enate"
 
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 ]]>
 
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  </EXAMPLE>
 
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  <SEE_ALSO>
 
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    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
 
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      <LINK>addf</LINK>
 
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    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
 
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    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
 
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      <LINK>mtlb_mode</LINK>
 
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    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
 
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  </SEE_ALSO>
 
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</MAN>