Vectorised code

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Vectorised code

Code can be made shorter and faster by exploiting vectorisation - removing for loops.

% This creates a 10x10 matrix using the magic command, then finds
% the mean of each  column, ignoring any element less than 10.
% Note that no explicit loops are used.
array=magic(10)
keep = (array>=10);
colSums = sum(array .* keep);
counts = sum(keep); 
means = colSums ./ counts

For many more examples see Vectorisation Tricks

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