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GNU Octave Manual

by John W. Eaton

Paperback (6"x9"), 324 pages, 4 figures
Retail Price: $29.99 (£19.99 in UK)
ISBN: 0-9541617-2-6

About the Book

This manual is the definitive guide to GNU Octave, an interactive environment for numerical computation.

The manual covers the 2.0.x release of GNU Octave.

The author of this manual, John W. Eaton, is the original developer of GNU Octave.

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As of January 2008 the amount donated is $2328.

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Table of Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. Getting Started
  4. Data Types
  5. Numeric Data Types
  6. Strings
  7. Data Structures
  8. Variables
  9. Expressions
  10. Evaluation
  11. Statements
  12. Functions and Scripts
  13. Error Handling
  14. Input and Output
  15. Plotting
  16. Matrix Manipulation
  17. Arithmetic
  18. Linear Algebra
  19. Nonlinear Equations
  20. Quadrature
  21. Differential Equations
  22. Optimization
  23. Statistics
  24. Sets
  25. Polynomial Manipulations
  26. Control Theory
  27. Signal Processing
  28. Image Processing
  29. Audio Processing
  30. System Utilities
  31. Tips
  32. Trouble
  33. Installation
  34. Emacs
  35. Grammar
  36. Copying
  37. Concept Index
  38. Variable Index
  39. Function Index
  40. Operator Index

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