For example, on the Applied Maths Linux workstations, you would open a separate window and launch your favorite unix editor. This is not recommended for this course. Experience last year showed that students become confused in the heat of an exam and have difficulty handing in their exams in time. While working through the primer, you should get used to editing a command script and then reading it into Matlab. The diary command.
Precision is different from accuracy.
The help system. Operations on matrices. Plotting 2-D data in Matlab.