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<span id="Operator-Overloading-1"></span><h4 class="subsection">34.4.2 Operator Overloading</h4>
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<p>The following table shows, for each built-in numerical operation, the
corresponding function name to use when providing an overloaded method for a
user class.
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<thead><tr><th>Operation</th><th>Method</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead>
<tr><td><code>a + b</code></td><td><code>plus (a, b)</code></td><td>Binary addition</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>a - b</code></td><td><code>minus (a, b)</code></td><td>Binary subtraction</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>+a</code></td><td><code>uplus (a)</code></td><td>Unary addition</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>-a</code></td><td><code>uminus (a)</code></td><td>Unary subtraction</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>a .* b</code></td><td><code>times (a, b)</code></td><td>Element-wise multiplication</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>a * b</code></td><td><code>mtimes (a, b)</code></td><td>Matrix multiplication</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>a ./ b</code></td><td><code>rdivide (a, b)</code></td><td>Element-wise right division</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>a / b</code></td><td><code>mrdivide (a, b)</code></td><td>Matrix right division</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>a .\ b</code></td><td><code>ldivide (a, b)</code></td><td>Element-wise left division</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>a \ b</code></td><td><code>mldivide (a, b)</code></td><td>Matrix left division</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>a .^ b</code></td><td><code>power (a, b)</code></td><td>Element-wise power</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>a ^ b</code></td><td><code>mpower (a, b)</code></td><td>Matrix power</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>a &lt; b</code></td><td><code>lt (a, b)</code></td><td>Less than</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>a &lt;= b</code></td><td><code>le (a, b)</code></td><td>Less than or equal to</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>a &gt; b</code></td><td><code>gt (a, b)</code></td><td>Greater than</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>a &gt;= b</code></td><td><code>ge (a, b)</code></td><td>Greater than or equal to</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>a == b</code></td><td><code>eq (a, b)</code></td><td>Equal to</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>a != b</code></td><td><code>ne (a, b)</code></td><td>Not equal to</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>a &amp; b</code></td><td><code>and (a, b)</code></td><td>Logical and</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>a | b</code></td><td><code>or (a, b)</code></td><td>Logical or</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>!a</code></td><td><code>not (a)</code></td><td>Logical not</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>a'</code></td><td><code>ctranspose (a)</code></td><td>Complex conjugate transpose</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>a.'</code></td><td><code>transpose (a)</code></td><td>Transpose</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>a:b</code></td><td><code>colon (a, b)</code></td><td>Two element range</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>a:b:c</code></td><td><code>colon (a, b, c)</code></td><td>Three element range</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>[a, b]</code></td><td><code>horzcat (a, b)</code></td><td>Horizontal concatenation</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>[a; b]</code></td><td><code>vertcat (a, b)</code></td><td>Vertical concatenation</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>a(s<em>_1</em>,&hellip;,s<em>_n</em>)</code></td><td><code>subsref (a, s)</code></td><td>Subscripted reference</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>a(s<em>_1</em>,&hellip;,s<em>_n</em>) = b</code></td><td><code>subsasgn (a, s, b)</code></td><td>Subscripted assignment</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>b(a)</code></td><td><code>subsindex (a)</code></td><td>Convert object to index</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>disp</code></td><td><code>disp (a)</code></td><td>Object display</td></tr>
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<div class="float-caption"><p><strong>Table 34.1: </strong>Available overloaded operators and their corresponding class method</p></div></div>
<p>An example <code>mtimes</code> method for the polynomial class might look like
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<pre class="verbatim">function p = mtimes (a, b)
  p = polynomial (conv (double (a), double (b)));
endfunction
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