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Typing Greek Letters on MATLAB

I've just started using MATLAB and one of my assignments requires me to use Greek letters (in particular, α). I tried copying it into the code area, and also tried using the \alpha command, none of which seem to work.

I get the error message: "| Error: Unexpected MATLAB operator."

Could anyone tell me how I can get it to work or perhaps if there's another way to type Greek letters?

Thanks!

Solution

  • You cannot use the greek letter α as a variable name. For that you should simply type it as alpha. If you want, however, you can use it in a plot and other UI elements.

    For example you might want to set the title of the plot to something such as:

    title('Intensity (\alpha = .2)')