Section: Mathematical Operators
y = a .* b
where a and b are n-dimensional arrays of numerical type.  In the
first case, the two arguments are the same size, in which case, the 
output y is the same size as the inputs, and is the element-wise
product of a and b.  In the second case, either a or b is a scalar, 
in which case y is the same size as the larger argument,
and is the product of the scalar with each element of the other argument.
The rules for manipulating types has changed in FreeMat 4.0.  See typerules
for more details.
 
If a is a scalar, then the output is computed via
 
On the other hand, if b is a scalar, then the output is computed via
 
.* operator.  The first example
is straightforward:
--> 3 .* 8 ans = 24
Next, we multiply a scalar by a vector of values:
--> 3.1 .* [2,4,5,6,7]
ans = 
    6.2000   12.4000   15.5000   18.6000   21.7000 
With complex values
--> a = 3 + 4*i a = 3.0000 + 4.0000i --> b = a .* 2 b = 6.0000 + 8.0000i
Finally, the element-wise version:
--> a = [1,2;3,4] a = 1 2 3 4 --> b = [2,3;6,7] b = 2 3 6 7 --> c = a .* b c = 2 6 18 28