Re: matlab - scilab

["Timothy J. Ford" <@murphy.debian.org Timothy J.Ford <ford@fau.edu>>]

Octave is a Matlab-like numerical package which is distributed under GNU
General Public License rules. For matrix and linear algebra
computations it is ideal.

Mathematica is mainly a symbolic algebra tool and is not free.
I have not used it myself. 

Octave does not have a symbolic algebra component, so in that
sense you can't compare it to Mathematica.

Eric Richardson writes:
 > "Timothy J. Ford
 > > 
 > > you should try octave, it's very good.
 > > 
 > How does this compare to Mathematica?
 > 
 > Eric :-)

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