W. Eaton, with help from many others, like
MATLAB, primarily
intended for numerical computations. Octave provides a
nonlinear problems numerically.
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
other
Unix systems with
g++ and libg++.
Latest version: 2.0.16 (released 2000-01-30), as of 2000-06-26.
(2000-06-27)