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Re: Questions about Octave
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Quentin Spencer |
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Re: Questions about Octave |
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Sun, 23 Jul 2006 00:42:40 -0500 |
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George Wong wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to the Octave software and have the following questions.
> 1) Does the software have built-in math libraries, and support
> symbolic expressions?
It has support for several math libraries, including BLAS, ATLAS, FFTW,
UFSPARSE. If you install a precompiled version, the support is
automatically enabled in most distributions. Symbolic math is supported
in octave-forge (see octave.sourceforge.net) using the GiNaC library. I
haven't used it much I so I can't say how good it is.
> 2) Does the software have libraries for a particular industry, such as
> hydraulics and power systems?
Octave forge includes some signal and image processing functions, but I
don't know whether there is anything specific to hydraulics or power
systems.
> 3) Does the software support block diagrams?
I'm guessing you're asking whether there is an equivalent of Matlab's
Simulink, and the answer is no.
Quentin