

Some instructions are given below for a Windows-Based machine. Installation of Octave on your computer is relatively easy.

For more information, you may visit the Octave Web Site. The Octave language is quite similar to Matlab so that most programs are easily portable. Octave is normally used through its interactive command line interface, but it can also be used to write non-interactive programs.

It also provides extensive graphics capabilities for data visualization and manipulation. It provides capabilities for the numerical solution of linear and nonlinear problems, and for performing other numerical experiments. GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended for numerical computations.
