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.TH minus 1 "April 1993" "Scilab Group" "Scilab Function"
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.SH NAME
minus (-) -  substraction operator, sign changes
.SH CALLING SEQUENCE	
.nf 
X-Y
-Y
.fi
.SH PARAMETERS
.TP 
X 
: scalar or vector or matrix of numbers, polynomials or rationals. It
may also be a \fVsyslin\fR list
.TP 
Y 
: scalar or vector or matrix of numbers, polynomials or rationals. It
may also be a \fVsyslin\fR list
.SH DESCRIPTION
Substraction
.LP
For numeric operands substraction as its usual meaning.
If one of the operands is a matrix and the other one a scalar the
the operation is performed element-wise. if \fVY==[] X\fR  is returned;
if \fVX==[] -Y\fR  is returned.
.LP
Substraction may also be defined for other data types through
"soft-coded" operations.
.SH EXAMPLE
.nf
[1,2]-1
[]-2

%s-2
1/%s-2
"cat"+"enate"
.fi
.SH SEE ALSO
addf, mtlb_mode