Octave

language A high-level interactive language by John

W. Eaton, with help from many others, like MATLAB, primarily

intended for numerical computations. Octave provides a

convenient command line interface for solving linear and

nonlinear problems numerically.

Octave can do arithmetic for real and complex scalars

and matrices, solve sets of nonlinear algebraic equations,

integrate functions over finite and infinite intervals, and

integrate systems of ordinary differential and

differential-algebraic equations.

Octave has been compiled and tested with g++ and libg++ on a

SPARCstation 2 running SunOS 4.1.2, an IBM RS/6000

running AIX 3.2.5, DEC Alpha systems running OSF/1 1.3

and 3.0, a DECstation 5000/240 running Ultrix 4.2a, and

Intel 486 systems running Linux. It should work on most

other Unix systems with g++ and libg++.

Octave is distributed under the GNU General PublicLicense. It requires gnuplot, a C++ compiler and

Fortran compiler or f2c translator.

Latest version: 2.0.16 (released 2000-01-30), as of 2000-06-26.

home .

or your nearest GNUarchive site.

E-mail: [email protected].

(2000-06-27)