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Scientific Programming Language

  * Powerful mathematics-oriented syntax with built-in 2D/3D plotting
    and visualization tools
  * Free software, runs on GNU/Linux, macOS, BSD, and Microsoft
    Windows
  * Drop-in compatible with many Matlab scripts

Syntax Examples

The Octave syntax is largely compatible with Matlab. The Octave
interpreter can be run in GUI mode, as a console, or invoked as part
of a shell script. More Octave examples can be found in the Octave
wiki.

Solve systems of equations with linear algebra operations on vectors
and matrices.

b = [4; 9; 2] # Column vector
A = [ 3 4 5;
      1 3 1;
      3 5 9 ]
x = A \ b     # Solve the system Ax = b

Visualize data with high-level plot commands in 2D and 3D.

x = -10:0.1:10; # Create an evenly-spaced vector from -10..10
y = sin (x);    # y is also a vector
plot (x, y);
title ("Simple 2-D Plot");
xlabel ("x");
ylabel ("sin (x)");

Click here to see the plot output

Octave Packages

GNU Octave can be extended by packages. Find them at:

  * https://packages.octave.org/

Development

Octave is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License
(GPL). Assuming you have Mercurial installed on your machine you may
obtain the latest development version of Octave sources with the
following command:

hg clone https://hg.octave.org/octave

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GNU Octave 7.3.0 Released - Nov 2, 2022

Octave Version 7.3.0 has been released and is now available for
download. An official Windows binary installer is also available. For
macOS see the installation instructions in the wiki.

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