GNU Octave is a scientific programming language for scientific computing and numerical computation. Octave helps in 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. As part of the GNU Project, it is free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1988
Created by: John W. Eaton • Torsten Lilge
Developed by: John W. Eaton
Operating systems: Microsoft Windows • Unix-like operating system
Implemented in: C++
Named after: Octave Levenspiel
Aliases: OCTAVE

Wikidata: Q223679

Influenced by: MATLAB

Programming paradigms: array programming