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; Short Description: 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 using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language.
; Version: 3.2.24
; Location: <code>/usr/local/octave</code>
; Usage
Octave requires an updated version of Gnuplot. Please add the following lines into your [[User Guide#Unix Shell | dot profiles]]
* for <code>.bashrc</code>
export PATH=/usr/local/octave/bin:/usr/local/gnuplot/bin:$PATH
* for <code>.cshrc</code>
setenv PATH /usr/local/octave/bin:/usr/local/gnuplot/bin:$PATH
; Documentation: [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave Octave Homepage]