In order to thoroughly understand what makes Linux tick and why it works so well on a wide variety of systems, you need to delve deep into the heart of the kernel. The kernel handles all interactions between the CPU and the external world, and determines which programs will share processor time, in what order. It manages limited memory so well that hundreds of processes can share the system efficiently, and expertly organizes data transfers so that the CPU isn t kept waiting any longer than necessary for the relatively slow disks.
The MatlabBGL library fills a hole in Matlab s suite of algorithms. Namely, it provides a rich set of algorithms to work with graphs, as in graph theory graphs. The MatlabBGL package uses Matlab s native sparse matrix type as a graph and provides algorithms that work
Two functions, num2bin and bin2num are provided. num2bin takes a double and converts it to a binary string representation. bin2num is its inverse operation. It can be used in a numerical analysis course when floating point arithmetic is discussed.
