Octave

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GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language.

Octave
A 3D plot of a two-dimensional sinc function of radius (sombrero).
Developer:	John W. Eaton
Package Info (pin)	openSUSE 10.3 openSUSE 10.2 SUSE Linux 10.1
License:	GNU GPLv2
Website:	http://www.octave.org/

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GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language.

Octave has extensive tools for solving common numerical linear algebra problems, finding the roots of nonlinear equations, integrating ordinary functions, manipulating polynomials, and integrating ordinary differential and differential-algebraic equations. It is easily extensible and customizable via user-defined functions written in Octave's own language, or using dynamically loaded modules written in C++, C, Fortran, or other languages.

See also

• Maxima
• Yacas
• Scilab

External Links

• Homepage
• Wikipedia about Octave
• Comparison of numerical analysis software