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For questions about the design of Octave and the MATLAB language, or languages which are closely related to them

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Why does MATLAB have left division/solve?

In MATLAB (and Octave), the \ (or mldivide) and \. operators are provided with the exact same functionality as / (or mrdivide) and /., except their arguments are commuted. I'm looking for any backgrou …