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Re: Matlab compatibility for university Numerical Analysis course
From: |
Carlo de Falco |
Subject: |
Re: Matlab compatibility for university Numerical Analysis course |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:05:56 +0000 |
On 13/nov/08, at 21:37, Dotan Cohen wrote:
I am taking a numerical analysis course at my university. We have been
recommended to use Matlab. Is Octave considered a viable alternative
for a university course? I understand that Octave is _mostly_ Matlab
compatible but I am not familiar enough with either Matlab or Octave
to make an informed decision.
I have been teaching courses in numerical analysis where lab
excercises were done with Matlab.
For those students tht wanted to repeat the excercises at home I have
often recomended Octave.
The only differences the students have ever found were with the
plotting functions but those differences have been significantly
reduced in more recent versions of Octave.
BTW I am aware of at least one textbook [1] in elementary numerical
analysis containig examples and excercise that are explicitely
intended to work with both matlab and Octave.
c.
[1] Scientific Computing with MATLAB and Octave
Quarteroni, Alfio, Saleri, Fausto
Springer Verlag, Series: Texts in Computational Science and
Engineering , Vol. 2
Re: Matlab compatibility for university Numerical Analysis course, Søren Hauberg, 2008/11/14