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====== What to turn in for a lab or homework ======

Labs and homeworks should be produced as follows
  - Use Matlab's ''diary'' function to keep a plain-text diary of your Matlab session.
  - Use ''format compact'' to reduce whitespace.
  - Work out the problems in Matlab
  - If any questions require answer written out in English, type them as comments in the Matlab session
  - When your Matlab session is over, edit the diary with a plain-text editor to remove mistakes and generally make the dairy clean and easily readable.
  - Please **do not** cut and paste your Matlab work into a Microsoft Word document or similar.
  - Either print out the diary or email it to the Teaching Assistant, depending on his or her preferences. 

Here's an example of a decently documented and formatted plain-text lab for turning in.
<code>

>> % John Gibson
>> % Lab #3, 9/18/2012
>> % Math 445

>> % Problem 1: 
>> % Show e^a e^b == e^(a+b) for a=0.3, b=0.4
>> format long
>> a=0.3; b=0.4;
>> e^a * e^b 
ans =  2.01375270747048
>> e^(a+b)
ans =  2.01375270747048

>> % Show (e^a)^b == e^(ab) for a=0.3, b=0.4
>> a=0.2; b=10;
>> (e^a)^b 
ans =  7.38905609893065
>> e^(a*b)
ans =  7.38905609893065

>> % Problem 2: Evaluate 0 < 5 < 2 in Matlab and explain the result.
>> 0 < 5 < 2
ans =
     1
>> % For the expression 0 < 5 < 2, Matlab returns 1 because...
>> %   the first comparison 0 < 5 is a logical expression that evaluates to 1 (true)
>> %   so 0 < 5 < 2 reduces to 1 < 2, another logical expression that evaluates to 1 (true)
</code>

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