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 using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. 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, integrating ordinary functions, manipulating polynomials, and integrating ordinary differential and differential-algebraic equations. It is easily extensible and customizable via user-defined functions written in Octave's own language, or using dynamically loaded modules written in C++, C, Fortran, or other languages.
License: GNU GPL (GNU package).
Tags: algebra, linear algebra, numerical methods.
Interface: command line.
Source languages: C, C++, Fortran.
Requires libncurses4, make, g++, libstdc++, gnuplot, less.
Maintainer: John W. Eaton.
Developer: John W. Eaton.
Homepage: http://www.octave.org/.
Documentation: http://www.network-theory.co.uk/octave/manual/.
Source repository: http://www.octave.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi.
Announcements: info@octave.org.
Support: help@octave.org.
Development: maintainers@octave.org.
Bugs: bug@octave.org.