Is there an equivalent to MATLAB's linspace?

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Does Mathematica have an equivalent to Matlab's linspace? I want to make a list with "start", "stop" and "number of points". What is the neatest way of doing this?

Kuba · Answer 1 · 2013-11-29T14:30:19.790

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There was an update for Array, not done to the end. The method below does not work for earlier versions even though that Array is

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Moreover WRI forgot to update docs for error messages: Array::plen - the first example gives no error in V9.

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Array[# &, n, {start, stop}]

Array[# &, 10, {-1, 1}]

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ClearAll[linespace];
linespace[s_, f_, 1] := (f + s)/2
linespace[s_, f_, n_] := Range[s, f, (f - s)/(n - 1)]

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answered Nov 29 '13 at 12:28

Kuba

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Nice, this one I´ll crib shamelessly :D – Yves Klett Nov 29 '13 at 12:29
I like Array, work like charm – Vibhor Singh Nov 29 '13 at 12:45
I've written Range[s, f, (f - s)/(n - 1)] so many times that my fingers run across the keyboard on their own – Dr. belisarius Nov 29 '13 at 20:32
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Daaamn... I should've answered this question instead of the dupe. I answered the exact same question 3 months ago with the same answer and got only 2 votes :P – rm -rf Dec 01 '13 at 17:22
can you have a code example? – Charlie Parker May 01 '17 at 20:22
@CharlieParker what do you mean? – Kuba May 01 '17 at 20:27
If you get around to updating this: from 10.1 onwards you can now do Subdivide[-1, 1, 10 - 1]. – J. M.'s missing motivation Aug 17 '17 at 14:35
@J.M. yep, though it is already mentioned in the parent thread. – Kuba Aug 17 '17 at 14:36

Peltio · Answer 2 · 2013-11-29T18:37:21.390

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You could use table... unless I am missing something really basic. Speed, maybe? Edited to consider the special case as suggested by Kuba.

linspace[start_, stop_, n_:100] := Table[x, {x, start, stop, (stop - start)/(n - 1)}]
linspace[start_, stop_, 1] := Mean[{start,stop}]

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answered Nov 29 '13 at 18:17

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it is the way too, be careful with n=1. – Kuba Nov 29 '13 at 18:21
Ah, ok. My procedures are written with the implicit disclaimer "this will help you aim at your foot, it's up to you not to pull the trigger". Well, it can be overloaded to consider the special case. – Peltio Nov 29 '13 at 18:24
I like this disclaimer :) but notice that I'm not reminding about negative numbers, strings etc. but about little function deficiency. – Kuba Nov 29 '13 at 18:36
I certainly appreciate feedback. So, basically, this special case could arise within some automated task that could compute the number of points and come up with the special, and apparently useless case n=1. Before writing my post I had a look at the web documentation for linspace for MATLAB and this special case is not mentioned. Actually, I see now this http://cens.ioc.ee/local/man/matlab/techdoc/ref/linspace.html is the first page that came up but it appears it is not on Mathworks servers. So my bad for not checking it thoroughly. – Peltio Nov 29 '13 at 18:41
it seems there is no good answer :) n=1 seems useless but on the other hand, why not? – Kuba Nov 29 '13 at 19:02

Is there an equivalent to MATLAB's linspace?

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