Understanding Concatenation in MATLAB

Concatenation is a mathematical operation that combines two or more objects, such as numbers, strings, or matrices, by placing them side by side. The result of concatenation is a single object that contains all the original objects combined.

For example, if we have two strings "Hello" and "World", we can concatenate them using the + operator to get the string "HelloWorld".

In MATLAB, you can use the concatenator (&) operator to concatenate arrays or matrices. For example:

a = [1 2 3];
b = [4 5 6];
c = a & b;

will give you the array c = [1 2 3 4 5 6].

Note that when you concatenate arrays or matrices, the elements of the arrays or matrices are placed side by side, so the order of the elements in the original arrays or matrices matters. If you want to concatenate arrays or matrices with different sizes, you can use the diff operator to specify the size of the resulting array or matrix. For example:

a = [1 2];
b = [3 4 5];
c = [a, b];

will give you the array c = [1 2 3 4 5].