# zeros (Matlab function)

Create an array of all zeros

## Matlab/Scilab equivalent

Matlab | Scilab

    zeros

    zeros

## Particular cases

B=zeros(A)

  If A is a scalar, then Matlab returns a A*A matrix of zeros but in Scilab you get a 1, use zeros(A,A) to get the same matrix B. If A is a row vector, Scilab and Matlab give the same B. Finally, if A is a matrix, in Scilab, B will be a matrix having the same size as A whereas in Matlab, you get an error message.

Note that in Matlab, A can contain complex values (in these cases, only real part of A is taken in account), what Scilab function do not tolerate.

## Examples

Matlab | Scilab

    B = zeros(2)
    B = [0,;0,0]
    B = zeros(2,2)
    B = [0,0;0,0]
    B = zeros([3,3])
    B = [0,0,0;0,0,0;0,0,0]

    B = zeros(2)
    B = 0
    B = zeros(2,2)
    B = [0,0;0,0]
    B = zeros([3,3])
    B = [0,0]