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<MAN>
  <LANGUAGE>eng</LANGUAGE>
  <TITLE>dot</TITLE>
  <TYPE>Scilab Symbol</TYPE>
  <DATE>April 1993</DATE>
  <SHORT_DESCRIPTION name="dot"> (.)  symbol</SHORT_DESCRIPTION>
  <CALLING_SEQUENCE>
    <CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>123.33</CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>
    <CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>a.*b</CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>
    <CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>[123,..  </CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>
    <CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM> 456]  </CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>
  </CALLING_SEQUENCE>
  <DESCRIPTION>
    <DESCRIPTION_INDENT>
      <DESCRIPTION_ITEM label=".">
        <SP>Dot is used to mark decimal point for numbers : 3.25 and 0.001</SP>
      </DESCRIPTION_ITEM>
      <DESCRIPTION_ITEM label=".&lt;op&gt;">
        <SP>used in cunjunction with other operator symbols (<VERB>* / \ ^ '</VERB>) to form other operators.  Element-by-element multiplicative operations are obtained using <VERB> .* , .^ , ./ , .\</VERB> or <VERB>.'</VERB>.  For example, C = A ./ B is the matrix with elements c(i,j) = a(i,j)/b(i,j). Kronecker product is noted .*. .  Note that when dot follows a number it is alway prt of the number so 2.*x is evaluated as 2.0*x and 2 .*x is evaluated as (2).*x</SP>
      </DESCRIPTION_ITEM>
      <DESCRIPTION_ITEM label="..">
        <SP>Continuation.  Two or more decimal points at the end of a line causes the following line to be a continuation.</SP>
      </DESCRIPTION_ITEM>
    </DESCRIPTION_INDENT>
  </DESCRIPTION>
  <EXAMPLE>
<![CDATA[
1.345
x=[1 2 3];x.^2 .*x // a space is required between 2 and dot
[123,..
 456]
 ]]>
  </EXAMPLE>
  <SEE_ALSO>
    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>star</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>hat</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>slash</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>backslash</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
  </SEE_ALSO>
</MAN>
