Error Vectors: Unequal Lengths

[starbaj12]

What does it mean when it says error: Vectors must be the same lengths

 

[TenaliRaman]

this usually occurs when arguments to a function are required to be of same length especially in something like plot(A,B) ...

As u know anything and everything in MATLAB is a matrix and ofcourse arguments are vectors. So u must have called some function with arguments which needs argument with equal "number" of values ...

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[tacman]

When it says error: Vectors must be the same lengths, it means that the two vectors being compared or combined have different lengths. Vectors are mathematical objects that represent both magnitude and direction, and they are commonly used in data analysis and programming. In order to perform operations on vectors, they must have the same number of elements or entries. If the vectors have unequal lengths, it can lead to errors in calculations or comparisons.

For example, if we have two vectors representing the heights of students in two different classes, one with 30 students and the other with 25 students, we cannot directly compare the two vectors or perform operations on them because they have different lengths. This can lead to incorrect conclusions or results.

To avoid this error, we can either make sure that the vectors have the same length before performing any operations or use appropriate methods to handle unequal lengths, such as padding or truncating one of the vectors to match the length of the other. It is important to ensure that vectors are of equal lengths in order to accurately analyze and interpret data.