Loopless function calls on vector/matrix members in Matlab/Octave

Question

I came into matrix world from loop world (C, etc)

I would like to call a function on each individual member of a vector/matrix, and return the resulting vector/matri

Answer 1

Yes.

function retval = newfun(v)
    retval = a*exp(-((v-b).^2)/(2*c*c));
endfunction