Divide elements of matrix by scalar
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for i = 1:N
P(i) = P(i)/2;
end
I have this for loop that's supposed to divide each element of P by two, then I graph P but it's always double what it needs to be. N is 120 and P is a 1x120 array so it's not an indexing problem.
![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/912545/image.jpeg)
When I isolate my P array in another script and divide each element by 2 my graph looks how I want it to
![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/912550/image.jpeg)
Why won't my intial code divide by 2? Any help is greatly appreciated.
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the cyclist
on 3 Mar 2022
Are you doing this for loop inside a function? If so, the operation you are doing is only on the local copy of P. You need to output that new value of P from the function. Something like
function P = divideByTwo(P)
for i = 1:N
P(i) = P(i)/2;
end
end
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