Selhofer Hubert, Oliver Marcel, Scofield Thomas L. Introduction to GNU Octave

Bremen: Jacobs University, 2008. — 17 p.Octave is an interactive programming language specifically suited for vectorizable numerical calculations. It provides a high-level interface to many standard libraries of numerical mathematics, e.g. Lapack or Blas. The syntax of Octave resembles that of MatLAB. An Octave program usually runs unmodified on MatLAB. MatLAB, being commercial software, has a larger function set, so the reverse does not always work, especially when the program makes use of specialized add-on toolboxes for MatLAB.