| GNU Octave Manual by John W. Eaton Paperback (6"x9"), 324 pages, 4 figures ISBN 0954161726 RRP £19.99 ($29.99) |
1 A Brief Introduction to Octave
This manual documents how to run, install and port GNU Octave, and how to report bugs.
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. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language.
GNU Octave is also freely redistributable software. You may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. The GPL is included in this manual in section E GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.
This document corresponds to Octave version 2.0.13.
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