octave

GNU Octave language for numerical computations
  https://www.octave.org/
  32
  18 reviews



Octave is a (mostly MATLAB® compatible) high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command-line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically.

Octave can be dynamically extended with user-supplied C++ files.
Latest reviews
3
RNMcLean 1 year ago

Installation was like one-hand-clapping. Things happened, but, no link to activate Octave was to be seen. From the command line, octave was recognised and a command-line interface appeared. By looking in /usr/share/applications an entry called GNU Octave (with nice icon) could be found, and copying that to the desktop gave a suitable target for a rodent poke to activate Octave's command line, this time opening a graphical style window. The download was about 80MB, but a previous installation via "flatpak" required ~600MB as I recall so that's to be avoided. Starting Octave from that installation was much slower than with the current installation via the software manager. Once figured out. I use Octave to plot data, and good plots result. Text manipulation is maddening, and simple variables being 1x1 matrices is strange. More frustrating is that what should be a one-dimensional array (a "vector") of length N sometimes manifests as 1xN and sometimes as Nx1.

5
FinixFighter 2 years ago

I find it better than Matlab. And it's open source!

5
Minessota_Klei 2 years ago

Very good program! Works great on Linux Mint 20.2!

4
harrylin 3 years ago

Good Matlab replacement, works also in Mint 20 (edited comment)

5
madmax95 3 years ago

Best matlab clone! There is still room for progress, but this app helped me with my studies, as I could not afford matlab! Thanks!!

5
rawaniajay 5 years ago

Awesome !

5
darko123455 5 years ago

Its really great, i cant see why people are still using paid versions of mathemathical laboratories.

4
alitatli 5 years ago

It need to be up to date.. the latest version has variable editor.. If it is possible.. please.. :D

5
kaushikgm 7 years ago

Really great package.

5
proguru 8 years ago

Really a great MatLab alternative, runs most .m files without much modifications

5
Danyel 8 years ago

Excelente! lo que necesitaba para teoria de control!

5
sharno 10 years ago

Used it for a machine learning course on coursera and it was awesome. The best alternative for Matlab.

5
3dBloke 10 years ago

I got to know Octave as part of the Coursera "Machine Learning" course in 2012. I'm sure I've only scraped the surface of what it's capabale of. Powerful tool.

5
ionr 10 years ago

very nice matlab-compatibility, reads my files and plots fine. even those axis-handle-things work great, so i can plot more complex graphs.

5
mazinga 10 years ago

Great program, apart beeing free is way lighter than Matlab - install it with QtOctave GUI and enjoy a powerful matrix laboratory enviroment. Did all the Matlab required work for my University (geometry and physics computation) in it; I've started always in Matlab at UNI and continued on my computer at home with the Matlab saved *.m files – it was perfectly compatible, so I recommend Octave to evryone - give it a try and do it open source. Thanks a lot!

5
simuloid 10 years ago

Good matlab compatibility. Great matrix processing. Powerful but arcane plotting support.

5
baldus602 10 years ago

I love it it is really powerful

5
apurbapaul0 10 years ago

verry powrful program and highly compatible with matlab