Hi Minsoo Kim,
zeros(1,n) creates a 1xn vector of zeros i.e.
>> zeros(1,5)
ans =
0 0 0 0 0
You can read more about ‘zeros’ at the following link: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/zeros.html
Now, ‘x’ is a 1xn vector and the operation being performed is:
>> X = [x zeros(1,n)];
Here, ‘[ ]’ is the matrix constructor operator and when the elements within the brackets are separated by space, the resulting matrix is a row-wise concatenation of the elements. So, the above operation is basically a row-wise concatenation of ‘x’ and ‘zeros(1,n)’. Check the following code as an example:
>> x = ones(1,5)
x =
1 1 1 1 1
>> X = [x zeros(1,5)]
X =
1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
For more information about the matrix constructor operator '[ ]', you can check the following link: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/math/creating-and-concatenating-matrices.html#f1-84906
Hope this clears your query.
Thanks.
