Creation of fuction y=0

[Francesco Potorti`]

>y = zeros(1000,1);
>a = rand(1000,1) - 0.5;
>y = y + a;

What's the use of creating a vector of zeros?  This equivalent to

y = rand(1000,1) - 0.5;

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