Is exp() a Documented Function in the Symbolic Math Toolbox?

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Paul
Paul 2022년 5월 27일
댓글: Paul 2022년 5월 27일
I can't find it.
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Paul
Paul 2022년 5월 27일
It is defined for symbolic inputs and, i would imagine, commonly used. sin(), cos(), log(), etc. are implemented and documented. Seems strange that exp() is not.
Sam Chak
Sam Chak 2022년 5월 27일
편집: Sam Chak 2022년 5월 27일
Yes, it's strange. Even symbolic log(X) is documented.
syms x
y = cos(x)
x = pi;
subs(y)
ans =
-1
syms x
y = exp(x)
x = pi;
subs(y)
ans =
exp(pi)

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Steven Lord
Steven Lord 2022년 5월 27일
There is no separate documentation page for the exp method for sym objects, this is true. Not all methods of classes have documentation pages, and I believe this is especially true if the methods have very similar or the same behavior as the versions of the functions for double and single precision data. In fact if you look at the list of function reference pages for exp that appear on the first page of a search, the only three that show up are the double/single precision version in MATLAB, the quaternion version in a number of different toolboxes, and the fints version in Financial Toolbox (which is discouraged because fints is discouraged, with timetable being the recommended replacement.) There are more than just those three overloads.
which -all exp
built-in (/MATLAB/toolbox/matlab/elfun/@double/exp) % double method built-in (/MATLAB/toolbox/matlab/elfun/@single/exp) % Shadowed single method exp is a built-in method % Shadowed matlab.unittest.Verbosity method exp is a built-in method % Shadowed matlab.unittest.internal.fixtures.FolderScope method /MATLAB/toolbox/coder/half/@bfloat16/exp.p % Shadowed bfloat16 method /MATLAB/toolbox/control/ctrlmodels/@zpk/exp.m % Shadowed zpk method /MATLAB/toolbox/control/ctrlmodels/@tf/exp.m % Shadowed tf method /MATLAB/toolbox/finance/ftseries/@fints/exp.m % Shadowed fints method /MATLAB/toolbox/nnet/deep/@dlarray/exp.m % Shadowed dlarray method /MATLAB/toolbox/parallel/gpu/@gpuArray/exp.m % Shadowed gpuArray method /MATLAB/toolbox/parallel/parallel/@codistributed/exp.m % Shadowed codistributed method /MATLAB/toolbox/symbolic/symbolic/@sym/exp.m % Shadowed sym method
If you want to see the operations defined for sym objects you can ask MATLAB what methods are defined for that class. Note that this doesn't list all the operations you can perform on sym objects, as some MATLAB functions will operate on instances of a class as long as all the operations the function uses work on that class. For example the var function is not overloaded for sym but because all of the functions var.m uses work for sym you can compute the var of a symbolic vector.
which -all var % No sym overload
/MATLAB/toolbox/matlab/datafun/var.m /MATLAB/toolbox/matlab/timeseries/@timeseries/var.m % Shadowed timeseries method /MATLAB/toolbox/matlab/bigdata/@tall/var.m % Shadowed tall method /MATLAB/toolbox/finance/ftseries/@fints/var.m % Shadowed fints method /MATLAB/toolbox/parallel/gpu/@gpuArray/var.m % Shadowed gpuArray method /MATLAB/toolbox/parallel/parallel/@codistributed/var.m % Shadowed codistributed method
var(1:5)
ans = 2.5000
var(sym(1:5)) % But it works
ans = 
methods sym
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Paul
Paul 2022년 5월 27일
Thanks for the comprehensive answer. Any idea why symbolic log() has a doc page and exp() does not?
The more I think about it, the more suprised I am that sym exp() is not in the doc. For me, when I'm trying to learn how to use a toolbox, I go to the doc and start clicking around, particularly on the "Functions" at the top of a page, and when I do expect to see a comprehensive list of applicable functions, organized by group, etc. I would never use methods() at the command line.
I realize that there will always be functions like var(), but that's a different situation IMO.

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst 2022년 5월 27일
Type
which -all exp
to find out.
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Paul
Paul 2022년 5월 27일
which() only indicates that an item is found, not whether or not it's documented.
But I've also run across the opposite. For example, the function eul2rotm() can be found in the doc in multiple toolboxes:
But which() only returns one instance:
which eul2rotm -all
/MATLAB/toolbox/shared/robotics/robotutils/eul2rotm.m

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson 2022년 5월 27일
There is no doc for it.
help sym/exp
gives very brief help (nearly useless)
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Paul
Paul 2022년 5월 27일
편집: Paul 2022년 5월 27일
"very brief" is being kind. exp(sym) not being documented is ... odd. I mean of all the implemented functions I would think exp() would be one of the least likely to be not documented.
BTW, I stumbled on this using the new @doc thing here to generate a link to the symbolic version of exp() and was flummoxed when it didn't show up on the list.

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