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* Makefile.am, NEWS, build-aux/common.mk, configure.ac,
doc/Makefile.am, doc/doxyhtml/Makefile.am,
doc/interpreter/Makefile.am, doc/interpreter/arith.txi,
doc/interpreter/audio.txi, doc/interpreter/basics.txi,
doc/interpreter/bugs.txi, doc/interpreter/container.txi,
doc/interpreter/cp-idx.txi, doc/interpreter/data.txi,
doc/interpreter/debug.txi, doc/interpreter/diagperm.txi,
doc/interpreter/diffeq.txi, doc/interpreter/doccheck/README,
doc/interpreter/doccheck/spellcheck, doc/interpreter/emacs.txi,
doc/interpreter/errors.txi, doc/interpreter/eval.txi,
doc/interpreter/expr.txi, doc/interpreter/external.txi,
doc/interpreter/fn-idx.txi, doc/interpreter/func.txi,
doc/interpreter/geometry.txi, doc/interpreter/geometryimages.m,
doc/interpreter/gpl.txi, doc/interpreter/grammar.txi,
doc/interpreter/gui.txi, doc/interpreter/image.txi,
doc/interpreter/install.txi, doc/interpreter/interp.txi,
doc/interpreter/interpimages.m, doc/interpreter/intro.txi,
doc/interpreter/io.txi, doc/interpreter/java.txi,
doc/interpreter/linalg.txi, doc/interpreter/macros.texi,
doc/interpreter/matrix.txi, doc/interpreter/munge-texi.pl,
doc/interpreter/nonlin.txi, doc/interpreter/numbers.txi,
doc/interpreter/obsolete.txi, doc/interpreter/octave-config.1,
doc/interpreter/octave.texi, doc/interpreter/oop.txi,
doc/interpreter/op-idx.txi, doc/interpreter/optim.txi,
doc/interpreter/package.txi, doc/interpreter/plot.txi,
doc/interpreter/poly.txi, doc/interpreter/preface.txi,
doc/interpreter/quad.txi, doc/interpreter/set.txi,
doc/interpreter/signal.txi, doc/interpreter/sparse.txi,
doc/interpreter/sparseimages.m, doc/interpreter/splineimages.m,
doc/interpreter/stats.txi, doc/interpreter/stmt.txi,
doc/interpreter/strings.txi, doc/interpreter/system.txi,
doc/interpreter/testfun.txi, doc/interpreter/tips.txi,
doc/interpreter/var.txi, doc/interpreter/vectorize.txi,
doc/liboctave/Makefile.am, doc/liboctave/array.texi,
doc/liboctave/bugs.texi, doc/liboctave/cp-idx.texi,
doc/liboctave/dae.texi, doc/liboctave/diffeq.texi,
doc/liboctave/error.texi, doc/liboctave/factor.texi,
doc/liboctave/fn-idx.texi, doc/liboctave/gpl.texi,
doc/liboctave/install.texi, doc/liboctave/intro.texi,
doc/liboctave/liboctave.texi, doc/liboctave/matvec.texi,
doc/liboctave/nleqn.texi, doc/liboctave/nlfunc.texi,
doc/liboctave/ode.texi, doc/liboctave/optim.texi,
doc/liboctave/preface.texi, doc/liboctave/quad.texi,
doc/liboctave/range.texi, doc/refcard/Makefile.am,
doc/refcard/refcard.tex, etc/HACKING, etc/NEWS.1, etc/NEWS.2,
etc/NEWS.3, etc/OLD-ChangeLogs/ChangeLog,
etc/OLD-ChangeLogs/doc-ChangeLog,
etc/OLD-ChangeLogs/scripts-ChangeLog,
etc/OLD-ChangeLogs/src-ChangeLog, etc/OLD-ChangeLogs/test-ChangeLog,
etc/PROJECTS, etc/README.Cygwin, etc/README.MacOS, etc/README.MinGW,
etc/README.gnuplot, etc/gdbinit, etc/icons/Makefile.am,
examples/@polynomial/end.m, examples/@polynomial/subsasgn.m,
examples/Makefile.am, examples/standalonebuiltin.cc,
libgui/Makefile.am, libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/README,
libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/unix/BlockArray.cpp,
libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/unix/BlockArray.h,
libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/unix/Character.h,
libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/unix/CharacterColor.h,
libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/unix/Emulation.cpp,
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libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/unix/Filter.cpp,
libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/unix/Filter.h,
libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/unix/History.cpp,
libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/unix/History.h,
libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/unix/KeyboardTranslator.cpp,
libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/unix/KeyboardTranslator.h,
libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/unix/LineFont.h,
libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/unix/QUnixTerminalImpl.cpp,
libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/unix/QUnixTerminalImpl.h,
libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/unix/Screen.cpp,
libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/unix/Screen.h,
libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/unix/ScreenWindow.cpp,
libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/unix/ScreenWindow.h,
libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/unix/TerminalCharacterDecoder.cpp,
libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/unix/TerminalCharacterDecoder.h,
libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/unix/Vt102Emulation.h,
libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/win32/QWinTerminalImpl.cpp,
libgui/qterminal/qterminal/main.cpp,
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libinterp/corefcn/gl2ps-renderer.cc, libinterp/corefcn/graphics.cc,
libinterp/corefcn/graphics.in.h, libinterp/corefcn/ls-mat5.cc,
libinterp/corefcn/lu.cc, libinterp/corefcn/oct-tex-parser.yy,
libinterp/corefcn/oct-tex-symbols.in, libinterp/corefcn/quadcc.cc,
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libinterp/dldfcn/__voronoi__.cc, libinterp/gendoc.pl,
libinterp/genprops.awk, libinterp/mk-errno-list, libinterp/mk-pkg-add,
libinterp/mkbuiltins, libinterp/mkdefs, libinterp/mkdocs,
libinterp/mkops, libinterp/octave-value/ov-java.cc,
libinterp/parse-tree/lex.ll, libinterp/parse-tree/oct-parse.in.yy,
libinterp/parse-tree/octave.gperf, liboctave/Makefile.am,
liboctave/array/Array.cc, liboctave/array/module.mk,
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liboctave/cruft/odepack/cfode.f, liboctave/cruft/odepack/dlsode.f,
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scripts/java/javaclasspath.m, scripts/java/javamem.m,
scripts/linear-algebra/linsolve.m, scripts/linear-algebra/qzhess.m,
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scripts/specfun/expint.m, scripts/specfun/factor.m,
scripts/special-matrix/gallery.m, scripts/special-matrix/hankel.m,
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| 7018 | 2 @c |
| 3 @c This file is part of Octave. | |
| 4 @c | |
| 5 @c Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it | |
| 6 @c under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the | |
| 7 @c Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at | |
| 8 @c your option) any later version. | |
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| 7018 | 10 @c Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT |
| 11 @c ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or | |
| 12 @c FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License | |
| 13 @c for more details. | |
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| 7018 | 15 @c You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
| 16 @c along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see | |
| 17 @c <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. | |
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19 @ifclear AUTHORSONLY |
| 4167 | 20 @node Preface |
| 3294 | 21 @unnumbered Preface |
| 22 @cindex contributors | |
| 23 @cindex history | |
| 24 | |
| 25 Octave was originally intended to be companion software for an | |
| 26 undergraduate-level textbook on chemical reactor design being written by | |
| 27 James B. Rawlings of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and John | |
| 28 G. Ekerdt of the University of Texas. | |
| 29 | |
| 30 Clearly, Octave is now much more than just another `courseware' package | |
| 31 with limited utility beyond the classroom. Although our initial goals | |
| 32 were somewhat vague, we knew that we wanted to create something that | |
| 33 would enable students to solve realistic problems, and that they could | |
| 34 use for many things other than chemical reactor design problems. | |
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35 We find that most students pick up the basics of Octave quickly, and are |
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36 using it confidently in just a few hours. |
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| 38 Although it was originally intended to be used to teach reactor design, | |
| 39 it has been used in several other undergraduate and graduate | |
| 40 courses in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of | |
| 41 Texas, and the math department at the University of Texas has been using | |
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42 it for teaching differential equations and linear algebra as well. |
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43 More recently, Octave has been used as the primary computational tool |
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44 for teaching Stanford's online Machine Learning class |
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45 (@url{ml-class.org}) taught by Andrew Ng. Tens of thousands of students |
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| 3294 | 84 Special thanks to the following people and organizations for |
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| 94 C. Ahalt of the Ohio Supercomputer Center. | |
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| 96 @item | |
| 3839 | 97 The National Science Foundation, through grant numbers CTS-0105360, |
| 7090 | 98 CTS-9708497, CTS-9311420, CTS-8957123, and CNS-0540147. |
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| 100 @item | |
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| 105 The Paul A. Elfers Endowed Chair in Chemical Engineering at the | |
| 106 University of Wisconsin-Madison. | |
| 107 | |
| 108 @item | |
| 3294 | 109 Digital Equipment Corporation, for an equipment grant as part of their |
| 110 External Research Program. | |
| 111 | |
| 112 @item | |
| 113 Sun Microsystems, Inc., for an Academic Equipment grant. | |
| 114 | |
| 115 @item | |
| 116 International Business Machines, Inc., for providing equipment as part | |
| 117 of a grant to the University of Texas College of Engineering. | |
| 118 | |
| 119 @item | |
| 120 Texaco Chemical Company, for providing funding to continue the | |
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| 122 | |
| 123 @item | |
| 124 The University of Texas College of Engineering, for providing a | |
| 125 Challenge for Excellence Research Supplement, and for providing an | |
| 126 Academic Development Funds grant. | |
| 127 | |
| 128 @item | |
| 129 The State of Texas, for providing funding through the Texas | |
| 130 Advanced Technology Program under Grant No. 003658-078. | |
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| 132 @item | |
| 133 Noel Bell, Senior Engineer, Texaco Chemical Company, Austin Texas. | |
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| 3294 | 140 James B. Rawlings, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, |
| 5753 | 141 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. |
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| 143 @item | |
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| 145 @end itemize | |
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| 166 @cindex contributing to Octave | |
| 167 @cindex funding Octave development | |
| 168 | |
| 169 There are a number of ways that you can contribute to help make Octave a | |
| 170 better system. Perhaps the most important way to contribute is to write | |
| 171 high-quality code for solving new problems, and to make your code freely | |
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| 176 continue its development. Even a modest amount of additional funding | |
| 177 could make a significant difference in the amount of time that is | |
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| 199 make Octave better and more reliable by reporting any bugs you find and | |
| 200 by offering suggestions for ways to improve Octave. @xref{Trouble}, for | |
| 201 tips on how to write useful bug reports. | |
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| 4167 | 203 @node Distribution |
| 3294 | 204 @unnumberedsec Distribution |
| 205 @cindex distribution of Octave | |
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| 207 Octave is @dfn{free} software. This means that everyone is free to | |
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