Manual

410 Functions and commands

quartile3 Given a list or vector, returns the third quartile of the elements

of the list or vector. Given a matrix, returns the third quartile

of the columns of the matrix.

quartile3(List) or quartile3(Vector) or

quartile3(Matrix)

Example:

quartile3([1,2,3,5,10,4]) returns 5

quartiles Returns a matrix containing the minimum, first quartile,

median, third quartile, and maximum of the elements of a list

or vector. With a matrix as argument, returns the 5-number

summary of the columns of the matrix.

quartiles(List) or quartiles(Vector) or

quartiles(Matrix)

Example:

quartiles([1,2,3,5,10,4]) returns

quorem Returns the quotient and remainder of the Euclidean division

(by decreasing power) of two polynomials. The polynomials

can be expressed as vectors of their coefficients or in symbolic

form.

quorem(Poly,[Var]) or quorem(Vector, [Var])

Example:

quorem([1,2,3,4],[-1,2]) returns [[-1 -4 11]

[26]]

QUOTE Returns an expression unevaluated.

quote(Expr)

randexp Given a positive real number, returns a random real

according to the exponential distribution.

randexp(Real)

Example:

randexp(1) gives 1.17118631006