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Duane wrote:
<snip>
p.s., I assume that's why there are so many homework solutions
currently in the FEX. For example, why do we need Gaussian
elimination with pivoting or the fft as M-files in the FEX?
</snip>


I guess this conversation was over a month ago, but I want to throw my $.02 in anyway.  What's wrong with high quality solutions to things that are homework problems?  From my perspective, FEX submissions in that line are very helpful for people getting into Matlab.  All the fancy, optimized (and consequently obfuscated in many cases) code is pretty dense stuff for new users.  I don't think it's so hard to believe there are a fair number of enthusiastic students that are trying to learn because they are interested.