Writing matlab function to go through all the elements of its input

Let's say I want to make a function for calculating the hypotenuse of a number of triangles with their two dimensions saved as 2 matrices x and y. So I want to make a function such that when I call it in the main terminal it will be [z] = hypotenuse(x,y); such that 'z' will be a matrix containing the hypotenuses of each x,y pair.

How?

Answer 1

[bym]

doc hypot

[Paulo Silva]

good one, +1 vote, that documentation got it all nicely, new users should start by reading the documentation first

Answer 2

[David Young]

It's just

z = hypot(x, y);

The function automatically operates on all the x,y pairs and returns a matrix of the results.

Answer 3

[Bidyut]

Answer by Mr. David Young is brief and accurate !! Excellent !!