Scilab

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Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations providing a powerful open computing environment for engineering and scientific applications. Scilab includes hundreds of mathematical functions with the possibility to add interactively programs from various languages (C, C++, Fortran…). It has sophisticated data structures (including lists, polynomials, rational functions, linear systems...), an interpreter and a high level programming language.

Scilab
Scilab Global Plot
Developer:	INRIA / Scilab Consortium
Package Info (pin)	openSUSE 11.1 openSUSE 11.0 openSUSE 10.3
License:	Other Open Source license
Website:	http://www.scilab.org/

About

Scilab has been designed to be an open system where the user can define new data types and operations on these data types by using overloading.

A number of toolboxes are available with the system:

• 2-D and 3-D graphics, animation
• Linear algebra, sparse matrices
• Polynomials and rational functions
• Interpolation, approximation
• Simulation: ODE solver and DAE solver
• Scicos: a hybrid dynamic systems modeler and simulator
• Classic and robust control, LMI optimization
• Differentiable and non-differentiable optimization
• Signal processing
• Metanet: graphs and networks
• Parallel Scilab
• Statistics
• Interface with Computer Algebra: Maple package for Scilab code generation
• Interface with Fortran, Tcl/Tk, C, C++, Java, LabVIEW
• And a large number of contributions for various domains.

A large number of contributions can be downloaded from Scilab Web site.

See also

• Maxima
• Octave
• Yacas

External Links

• Homepage
• Wikipedia Article
• Comparison of numerical analysis software