pkgsrc/math/octave/DESCR
adam 2ba7f5e00f Changes 3.0.0:
* Compatibility with Matlab graphics is much better now.  We now
  have some graphics features that work like Matlab's Handle
  Graphics (tm):
* The way Octave handles search paths has changed.
* Previous versions of Octave had a number of built-in variables to
  control warnings (for example, warn_divide_by_zero).  These
  variables have been replaced by warning identifiers that are used
  with the warning function to control the state of warnings.
* All built-in variables have been converted to functions.
* For compatibility with Matlab, the output order of Octave's
  "system" function has changed.
* For compatibility with Matlab, the output of Octave's fsolve
  function has been changed.
* For compatibility with Matlab, normcdf, norminv, normpdf, and
  normrnd have been modified to compute distributions using the
  standard deviation instead of the variance.
* For compatibility with Matlab, gamcdf, gaminv, gampdf, gamrnd,
  expcdf, expinv, exppdf and exprnd have been modified to compute
  the distributions using the standard scale factor rather than
  one over the scale factor.
2008-01-11 01:23:43 +00:00

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GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical
computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for
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.
Octave has extensive tools for solving common numerical linear algebra
problems, finding the roots of nonlinear equations, integrating
ordinary functions, manipulating polynomials, and integrating ordinary
differential and differential-algebraic equations. It is easily extensible
and customizable via user-defined functions written in Octave's own
language, or using dynamically loaded modules written in C++, C, Fortran,
or other languages.