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Octave
Computer languages C,C++,Fortran  +
Documentation note User manual included; User FAQ included; Printed and online user manual available from http://www.network-theory.co.uk/octave/manual/
Featured category GNU Spotlight  +
Featured date 4 February 2012  +
Featured source The Free Software Supporter  +
Full description GNU Octave is a high-level language, prima 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. 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, functions written in Octave's own language, or by using dynamically loaded modules written in C, C++, Fortran, or other languages. Donations to support the software can be made at https://my.fsf.org/donate/working-together/octave. my.fsf.org/donate/working-together/octave.
GNU package identifier octave  +
Homepage URL http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/  +
Interface command-line  +
Is GNU true  +
Keywords math  + , algebra  + , equations  + , functions  + , batch  + , octave  +
Last review by Andrew Engelbrecht +
Last review date 4 February 2012  +
License GPLv2 + , GPLv3orlater +
License verified by Kelly Hopkins  +
License verified date 6 December 2011  + , 29 January 2010  +
Name Octave  +
Prerequisite description GNU make  + , a recent version of g++  + , libstdc++  + , fortran  + , gnuplot  + , less  +
Prerequisite kind Required to build  + , Weak prerequisite  +
Real name John W. Eaton  +
Related projects Bc + , Euler + , Goose + , NML + , PARI GP + , PDL + , Yorick + , Octave-ann + , Octave-db + , Octave-audio + , Octave-combinatorics + , Octave-data smoothing + , Octave-econometrics + , Octave-financial + , Octave-fixed + , Octave-ga + , Octave-general + , Octave-gsl + , Octave-ident + , Octave-image + , Octave-information theory + , Octave-io + , Octave-irsa + , Octave-linear algebra + , Octave-cdf + , Octave-gpr + , Octave-odebvp + , Octave-odepkg + , Octave-optim + , Octave-optiminterp + , Octave-outliers + , Octave-parallel + , Octave-physicalconstants + , Octave-plot + , Octave-quaternion + , Octave-signal + , Octave-simp + , Octave-sockets + , Octave-specfun + , Octave-specialmatrix + , Octave-splines + , Octave-struct + , Octave-symbolic + , Octave-time + , Octave-video + , Octave-vrlm + , Octave-zenity + , Octave-ad + , Octave-bim + , Octave-civilengineering + , Octave-engine + , Octave-fpl + , Octave-generatehtml + , Octave-graceplot + , Octave-integration + , Octave-mapping + , Octave-multicore + , Octave-nan + , Octave-nlwing2 + , Octave-nurbs + , Octave-ocs + , Octave-pdb + , Octave-secs1d + , Octave-secs2d + , Octave-symband + , Octave-tsa + , Octave-nnet + , Octave-java + , Jacal + , GNU Oflox +
Resource URL http://www.octave.org/hg/octave  + , http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/bugs.html  + , http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/help.html  +
Resource audience Developer  + , General  +
Resource kind VCS Repository Webview  + , Bug Tracking  + , Support  +
Revisionid 13,724  +
Revisiontimestamp 29 February 2012 18:13:10  +
Revisionuser Johns +
Role Maintainer  +
Short description High-level language for numerical computations  +
Use mathematics  +
User level intermediate  +
VCS checkout command hg clone http://www.octave.org/hg/octave  +
Version date 10 October 2011  +
Version download ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/octave-3.4.3.tar.gz  +
Version identifier 3.4.3  +
Version status stable  +
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