GNU Octave
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For other uses, see Octave (disambiguation).
GNU Octave is a scientific programming language for scientific computing and numerical computation. Octave helps in solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with MATLAB. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language. As part of the GNU Project, it is free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
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Developer(s) | John W. Eaton and many others[1] |
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Initial release | 4 January 1993; 31 years ago (4 January 1993) (first alpha release) 17 February, 1994; 30 years ago (17 February, 1994) (version 1.0)[2] |
Stable release | |
Repository | |
Written in | C++ (main), Octave itself (scripts), C (wrapper code), Fortran (linear algebra wrapper code)[4] |
Operating system | Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD |
Available in | 18 languages[5] |
Type | Scientific computing |
License | 2007: GPL-3.0-or-later[lower-alpha 1] 1992: GPL-2.0-or-later[lower-alpha 2] |
Website | gnu |
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