simplest way to build a series of numbers inside a for loop

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im trying to build a series of numbers inside a for loop. here is what i used to do this.
t=0
dt=.1
ii=0
for i=1:10
% ii=[ii,i] %method one
t=[t,t(i)+dt] %method 2
end
is there a simpler method to do this?

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Ameer Hamza
Ameer Hamza on 21 Apr 2018

You can simply use vector notation available in MATLAB as follow:

t = 0:0.1:1
ii = 0:10   % or ii = 0:1:10, if 2nd number is 1, it can be emitted.

The use of vector notation is also recommended because it is efficient and readable.

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Ameer Hamza
Ameer Hamza on 21 Apr 2018

So what do you mean by the simplest way? If you still want to use for loop then you can make improvement by pre-allocating the memory for the array as follow:

t=zeros(1, 11); %create 1x11 array of zeros
dt=.1;
ii=zeros(1, 11);
for i=1:10
  ii(i+1) = i;    %method one
  t(i+1)= t(i)+dt;  %method 2   
end

This pre-allocation will show significant improvement in speed if t is a very large vector. Other than vectorization, it cannot get any simpler than this.

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