octave: GNU Octave (Matlab clone) octave: octave: GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical octave: computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for octave: solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing octave: other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible octave: with Matlab. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language. octave: octave: Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ octave: octave: