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Owning Palette: Mathematics VIs

Use the Scripts & Formulas VIs to evaluate mathematical formulae and expressions on the block diagram.

Note  Many Scripts & Formulas VIs are available only in the LabVIEW Full and Professional Development Systems. If you have the LabVIEW Base Package, you do not have the full set of the Scripts & Formulas VIs described in this help file.

The nodes on this palette can return formula parsing error codes, LabVIEW MathScript error codes, or mathematics error codes.

Palette Object	Description
MathScript Node	Executes LabVIEW MathScripts. You can use the MathScript Node to evaluate scripts that you create in the LabVIEW MathScript Window. The LabVIEW MathScript syntax is similar to the MATLAB® language syntax.

Subpalette	Description
1D & 2D Evaluation VIs	Use the 1D & 2D Evaluation VIs to examine 1D and 2D functions given in symbolic form, where parameterization is allowed. You can numerically calculate extrema and partial derivatives.
Calculus VIs	Use the Calculus VIs for calculus and to solve differential equations.
Formula Parsing VIs	Use the Formula Parsing VIs to interpret input strings as formulas, transform the formulas into numeric calculations, and return the results.
Script Nodes	Use the script nodes to parse formulas, which are in the form of a string, and convert the formula strings to a form that can be used for evaluating results. The script nodes use a variety of routines to handle the formulas.
Zeros VIs	Use the Zeros VIs to find the zeros of 1D or n-dimension, linear or nonlinear functions or systems of functions.