If they should be the same for / and ./ I imagine they would not give us TWO different operators?
./ does an element-wise division. It divides each element by the corresponding element, as long as the two vectors/arrays are the same size and shape. It will fail if they are not, unless one of them was a scalar.
/ does the element-wise division IF the denominator is a scalar. If the two arguments are arrays, or vectors, then linear algebra comes into play.
B/A is equivalent to B*inv(A), WHEN A is a square matrix. If A is not a square matrix, then a solve is done that employs a factorization of the matrix A.
READ THE HELP. Of course, I admit that it might not be obvious to look at these:
help slash
help rdivide
help ldivide
help mrdivide
After all, I might have naively looked for help under divide. I honestly think it would be a good idea if this:
produced links to the appropriate functions, and explained the basic differences between all of those operators.
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