Outer Operation

e.g. Outer Product, Outer Sum, Outer Equals etc...

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Calculates resultant matrix when the OPERATOR is applied to all combinations of the elements of vector A and the elements of vector B e.g. the outer product of A and B is outerop(A,B,'*'), the outer sum of A and B is outerop(A,B,'+')

If OPERATOR is omitted '+' is assumed

This function is equivalent to the APL language's circle.dot operation. e.g. in APL Ao.*B is the outer product of A and B % and Ao.+B is the outer sum.

Ideally, it would work on matrices but in practice
I've only ever needed to use it with vectors.

Cite As

Murphy O'Brien (2026). Outer Operation (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/8370-outer-operation), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

General Information

MATLAB Release Compatibility

  • Compatible with any release

Platform Compatibility

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
Version Published Release Notes Action
1.0.0.0

Removed comaptibility with pre R14 releases becuase TMW have changed the way they reort version numbers. Made + the default operation.