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<h3 class="section">19.7 Examples</h3>
<p>The following are examples of vectorization questions asked by actual
users of Octave and their solutions.
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<li> For a vector <code>A</code>, the following loop
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<pre class="example">n = length (A);
B = zeros (n, 2);
for i = 1:length (A)
## this will be two columns, the first is the difference and
## the second the mean of the two elements used for the diff.
B(i,:) = [A(i+1)-A(i), (A(i+1) + A(i))/2];
endfor
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<p>can be turned into the following one-liner:
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<pre class="example">B = [diff(A)(:), 0.5*(A(1:end-1)+A(2:end))(:)]
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<p>Note the usage of colon indexing to flatten an intermediate result into
a column vector. This is a common vectorization trick.
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