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5 **[GNU Octave][1]** is a high-level interpreted language,
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6 primarily intended for numerical computations,
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7 with built-in plotting and visualization capabilities.
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8 Many [Octave Forge packages][2] provide useful extensions for
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9 several scientific and engineering applications.
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10 The GNU Octave language is quite similar to [Matlab][3]
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11 so that most programs are easily portable.
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13 Octave is distributed under the terms of the
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14 [GNU General Public License][4].
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16 [![GNU Octave 4.0.3 - Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0][screen-small]][screen]
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18 [1]: http://www.octave.org
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19 [2]: http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.php
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20 [3]: https://www.mathworks.com/matlab
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21 [4]: {{ "license.html" | relative_url }}
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22 [screen]: {{ "/img/screenshot-2016.png" | relative_url }}
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29 # [{% octicon rss class:"octicon-rss-octave" %}][Feed] [News]
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31 {% for post in site.posts limit:3 %}
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35 <div class="news-content">
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36 {{ post.excerpt }}
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46 ## Some Examples
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48 - Solve systems of equations with linear algebra operations on
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49 **vectors** and **matrices**:
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51 {% highlight octave %}
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52 b = [4; 9; 2]; % Column vector
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53 A = [ 3 4 5;
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55 3 5 9 ];
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56 x = A \ b % Solve $Ax = b$ by inverting A
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57 {% endhighlight %}
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59 - Visualize data with **high-level plot commands** in 2D and 3D:
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61 {% highlight octave %}
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62 % Create an evenly-spaced vector from -10 to 10
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63 x = -10:0.1:10;
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64 y = sin(x); % y is also a vector
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65 plot(x,y);
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66 title("Simple 2-D Plot");
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67 xlabel("x");
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68 ylabel("sin (x)");
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71 [![Sine plot][plot]][plot]
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73 [plot]: {{ "/img/plot.png" | relative_url }}