Graphing a For Loop Array

for i = 0:5:100
    y(i) = i
    x(i) = i^2;
end
figure(1)
plot(y,x)

I just want to create a simple plot graph of an exponentional curve, from 0 to 100 with a step size of 5. However I'm getting an error "Array indices must be positive integers or logical values" so I entere 1 instead of 0. This now works but it outputs 1,6,11... so on. Not starting from zero. This other issue I am having is my array places 0 between each value

"1 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 0 26"

How do I stop this? As this is affecting how my graph looks

I just want the array to output 1,6,11,16,21...

Answer 1

[Turlough Hughes]

i can either be the index or a value that you use on the RHS of your equations but typically not both. To fix your code you could add a counter, c, for indexing the positions in x and y

c = 1;
for i = 0:5:100
    x(c) = i;
    y(c) = i^2;
    c = c + 1;
end
figure()
plot(x,y)

Here are two other, preferable, ways you could plot it:

1.

figure(), fplot(@(x) x.^2, [0 100])

2.

x = 0:5:100;
y = x.^2;
figure(), plot(x,y)