Vectorize Matlab sum

Question

I have the following Matlab function:

function [res] = a3_funct(x)
 res = 0;
 for i = 1:size(x,1)
 res = res + abs(x(i))^(i+1);
 end
end

It's emulating this equation:

\$f(x) = \sum_{i=1}^{n}|x_i|^{i+1}\$

Here is an example use:

>> a3_funct([1,2,3]')
ans =
 90

I know I should be able to use the sum() function to make this faster, but how do I get the exponents in there?

Answer 1

Vectorized approach:

res = sum(abs(x(:).'.^(2:numel(x)+1)))

Read more about vectorization techniques here.

Thus, your function would look like this:

function res = a3_funct(x)
 res = sum(abs(x(:).'.^(2:numel(x)+1)));
return