Re: matlab - scilab

[Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@shiba.ucsd.edu>]

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Eric Richardson wrote:

> "Timothy J. Ford
> > 
> > you should try octave, it's very good.
> > 
> How does this compare to Mathematica?

For a GPL symbolic algebra system, you can try Maxima. For a free (as in
beer for non-commercial use) closed source option, look at MuPaD
(http://www.mupad.de/). For a commercial product, look at Maple or
Mathematica itself. Both have native Linux versions.

Octave is nearly syntactically identical to MatLab for numerical
operations. Many matlab scripts can run as is.

-- Syrus

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