< 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 Public License . 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 .
ftp://ftp.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave/ or your nearest GNU archive site .
E-mail: bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu .
(2000-06-27)