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In the context that we will discuss them, matrices are variables that are mxn that m and n > 1. The basic syntax of creating a matrix are shown below.
x = [1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9]
The semicolon indicates a new row. Both x and y are 3×3 matrices. Arithmetic with matrices is similar to arithmetic with arrays.