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<h2 class="chapter">1 A Brief Introduction to Octave</h2>
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GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical
computations. It provides a convenient interactive command line
interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and
for performing other numerical experiments. It may also be used as a
batch-oriented language for data processing.
<p>GNU Octave is freely redistributable software. You may redistribute
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to report bugs and help contribute code.
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