Another common error is to leave out the parentheses around the arguments of a function. The problem is that when you leave out the parentheses, MATLAB treats the argument as a string of characters (w...Another common error is to leave out the parentheses around the arguments of a function. The problem is that when you leave out the parentheses, MATLAB treats the argument as a string of characters (which have type 'char'). In this case the error message is helpful, but in other cases the results can be baffling. If you were translating the mathematical expression \[\frac{1}{2 \sqrt \pi}\] into MATLAB, you might be tempted to write this:
