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Re: free software version of MATLAB



On  0, Tom Cook <tom.cook@adelaide.edu.au> wrote:
> On  0, Oleg <oleg@tw304h3.cpmc.columbia.edu> wrote:
> > On Monday 07 October 2002 02:54 am, Musang S.X. wrote:
> > > Hi! I notice many students are using MATLAB at my
> > > school/campus, and I suspect most are pirated
> > > versions...
> > >
> > > Is there any free software version of MATLAB that I
> > > can use/suggest as an alternative?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > 
> > Octave and SciLab. They don't really measure up to MATLAB with its really 
> > extensive toolboxes, but they are OK for basic linear algebra.
> 
> I use Octave for a lot of signal processing and control stuff as
> well.  It covers pretty much everything they will need for an
> undergraduate electrical engineering course.

Sorry to reply to my own posts, but I just remembered that there is an
academic version of MATLAB at quite a reasonable price.  A few years
ago our school of engineering gave all new students a copy of it, but
I guess you'd have to discuss that with MathWorks.

Tom
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