GNU Octave Manual Version 3 at Dominant Systems Book Store

This manual is the definitive guide to GNU Octave, an interactive environment for numerical computation. GNU Octave provides a convenient command-line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems using vectors and matrices. This updated edition of the manual covers version 3 of GNU Octave, and includes documentation for new features such as sparse matrices, linear programming and computational geometry. GNU Octave is free software, distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). All the money raised from the sale of this book supports the development of free software. For each copy sold $1 is donated to the GNU Octave Development Fund by the publisher (Network Theory Ltd).

Customer Reviews & Comments
While maintaining the no-excess-verbage style of the previous version of the Octave manual, the Version 3 manual is greatly expanded and much more useful. For example the chapter on statistical computations has been expanded approximately ten-fold. Many, many new features are described, such as the more-Matlab-compatible graphics commands and the Packages system for expanding Octave's capabilities. Unless you're opposed to books on principle (an online version of the manual is available), I would highly recommend purchasing a copy of the Version 3 manual -- it comes at a bargain price, part of which helps fund Octave R&D.

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