Editing GNU Octave (section)

{{Short description|Numerical analysis programming language}}
{{Other uses|Octave (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox software
| name = GNU Octave
| logo = [[File:Gnu-octave-logo.svg|100px]]
| screenshot = GNUOctave430.png
| caption = GNU Octave 4.3.0+ running on [[Linux]]
| developer = John W. Eaton and many others<ref>{{cite web|title=contributors.in|author=Rik|url=http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/tip/doc/interpreter/contributors.in|access-date=14 June 2015|date=10 June 2015}}</ref>
| released = {{Start date and age|4 January 1993}} (first alpha release)<br/>{{Start date and age|17 February 1994}} (version 1.0)<ref name="kilikilikili">{{cite web| url = https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/about| title = "Full-time development began in the Spring of 1992. The first alpha release was January 4, 1993, and version 1.0 was released February 17, 1994."}}</ref>
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q223679|P348|P548=Q2804309}}
| latest release date = {{start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|P548=Q2804309|P348|P577}}}}
| latest preview version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q223679|P348|P548=Q51930650}}
| latest preview date = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q223679|P348|P548=Q51930650|P577}}
| programming language = [[C++]] (main), Octave itself (scripts), [[C (programming language)|C]] (wrapper code), [[Fortran]] (linear algebra wrapper code)<ref name="octave_building">{{cite web|title=Building - Octave|url=https://wiki.octave.org/Building|website=wiki.octave.org|publisher=GNU|access-date=1 May 2018|language=en}}</ref>
| operating system = [[Windows]], [[macOS]], [[Linux]], [[Berkeley Software Distribution|BSD]]
| platform = <!--List them all-->
| language count = 18 
| language footnote = <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/4730becad0b1/libgui/languages|title=Basque, Belarusian, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian|website=hg.savannah.gnu.org}}</ref>
| genre = [[List of numerical-analysis software|Scientific computing]]
| license = 2007: [[GNU General Public License|GPL-3.0-or-later]]{{efn|GPL-3.0-or-later since 2007-10-12.}}<br />1992: [[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]{{efn|GPL-2.0-or-later from 1992-02-19 until 2007-10-11.}}
| website = {{URL|https://octave.org/}}
}}
'''GNU Octave''' is a [[scientific programming language]] for [[scientific computing]] and [[numerical computation]]. Octave helps in 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 processing|batch-oriented]] language. As part of the [[GNU Project]], it is [[free software]] under the terms of the [[GNU General Public License]].