GNU Octave
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GNU Octave is a free software program designed for mathematical calculations and working with numerical data, similar to commercial tools used in science and engineering. It matters because it provides researchers, students, and engineers with a powerful tool for solving complex mathematical problems without requiring expensive paid software licenses.
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- Developers
- John W. Eaton and many others
- Initial release
- 4 January 1993 ; 33 years ago ( 4 January 1993 ) (first alpha release), 17 February 1994 ; 32 years ago ( 17 February 1994 ) (version 1.0)
- Stable release
- 11.1.0 / 23 February 2026 ; 3 months ago ( 23 February 2026 )
- Written in
- C++ (main), Octave itself (scripts), C (wrapper code), Fortran (linear algebra wrapper code)
- Operating system
- Windows , macOS , Linux , BSD
- Available in
- 18 languages
- Type
- Scientific computing
- License
- 2007: GPL-3.0-or-later , 1992: GPL-2.0-or-later
- Website
- octave .org
- Repository
- hg .savannah .gnu .org /hgweb /octave
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GNU Octave is a scientific programming language for scientific computing and numerical computation. Among other things, Octave can be used to solve linear and nonlinear problems numerically and to perform other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with MATLAB. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language. As part of the GNU Project, it is free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
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