Powerful mathematics-oriented syntax with built-in 2D/3D plotting and visualization tools
Free software, runs on GNU/Linux, macOS, BSD, and Microsoft Windows
Drop-in compatible with many Matlab scripts
Syntax Examples
The Octave syntax is largely compatible with Matlab.
The Octave interpreter can be run in
GUI mode, as a console,
or invoked as part of a shell script.
More Octave examples can be found in
the Octave wiki.
Solve systems of equations with linear algebra operations on
vectors and matrices.
b=[4;9;2]# Column vectorA=[345;131;359]x=A\b# Solve the system Ax = b
Visualize data with high-level plot commands
in 2D and 3D.
x=-10:0.1:10;# Create an evenly-spaced vector from -10..10y=sin(x);# y is also a vectorplot(x,y);title("Simple 2-D Plot");xlabel("x");ylabel("sin (x)");
Octave is free software licensed under the
GNU General Public License (GPL).
Assuming you have Mercurial installed on your machine you may obtain the latest
development version of Octave sources with the following command:
GNU Octave version 10.3.0 has been released and is now available for
download. An official Windows binary installer is available.
For macOS see the installation instructions in the wiki.
GNU Octave