Sum function on part of an array

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Robert Demyanovich
Robert Demyanovich 2021년 6월 8일
댓글: Walter Roberson 2021년 6월 8일
I don't understand what the following sum function does.
mA=zeros(M,1);
mA(1)=sum(cA(1,:))*dx;
mA is a column vector, so what does mA(1) mean?
The documentation for the sum function indicates that taking the sum of a vector just results in one value which is the sum of all of the values in the vector. Is that also what happens when you take the sum of a single row in a matrix (sum(cA(1,:)))? So is mA(1) equal to a single value? I can't seem to find out what mA(1) means for a vector.

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson 2021년 6월 8일
mA(1) in this context is designating a single array element as the destination for the assignment. You are putting the results into the first box of the stack of cubby-holes.
Is that also what happens when you take the sum of a single row in a matrix (sum(cA(1,:)))
Yes.
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Robert Demyanovich
Robert Demyanovich 2021년 6월 8일
I see. So in a 5x5 array, the first cell would have an index number of 1 and the last cell would have an index number of 25. Thanks for the explanation.
Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson 2021년 6월 8일
Right.
reshape(1:25,5,5)
ans = 5×5
1 6 11 16 21 2 7 12 17 22 3 8 13 18 23 4 9 14 19 24 5 10 15 20 25
reshape() changes the information about dimensions without changing the order in memory, so the values you see above in this particular case also happen to correspond to linear index.

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