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{{Short description|Open-source numerical computation software}}
{{More citations needed|date=April 2009}}
{{Infobox software
| name                   = Scilab
| logo                   = Scilab Logo.png
| screenshot             = Scilab 6 1.png
| caption                = Screenshot of Scilab 6.1
| developer              = [[Dassault Systèmes]]
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|edit|reference|P348}}
| latest release date = {{start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|P348|P577}}}}
| programming language   = Scilab, [[C (programming language)|C]], [[C++]], [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[Fortran]]
| operating system       = [[BSD]]s (e.g., [[FreeBSD]]), [[Linux]], [[macOS]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]
| language               = [[English language|English]], [[German language|German]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[French language|French]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]], [[Portuguese language|Portuguese&nbsp;(Brazil)]], [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]], [[Chinese language|Chinese]], [[Czech language|Czech]], [[Polish language|Polish]]
| genre                  = [[List of numerical-analysis software|Technical computing]]
| license                = [[GPLv2]], previously [[CeCILL]]
| website                = {{URL|https://www.scilab.org}}
}}

'''Scilab''' is a [[free and open-source]], cross-platform [[Numerical analysis|numerical computational]] package and a [[High-level programming language|high-level]], numerically oriented [[programming language]].  It can be used for [[signal processing]], [[statistical analysis]], [[image processing|image enhancement]], [[fluid dynamics]] simulations, [[Optimization (mathematics)|numerical optimization]], and modeling, simulation of explicit and implicit [[dynamical system]]s and (if the corresponding toolbox is installed) symbolic manipulations.<ref>{{cite web |title=Modelling and simulation of multitechnological machine systems|url=http://www.vtt.fi/inf/pdf/symposiums/2001/S209.pdf|last=Holopainen|first=Timo|year=2000 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |date=May 1998|first=Raidl|last=Guenther |title=1998 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Proceedings. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (Cat. No.98TH8360) |chapter=An improved genetic algorithm for the multiconstrained 0-1 knapsack problem |isbn=978-0-7803-4869-1|doi=10.1109/ICEC.1998.699502|pages=207–211|citeseerx=10.1.1.20.6454|s2cid=2337792 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Scilab: I. Fundamentals, from theory to practice|last=Philippe.|first=Roux|isbn=978-2-8227-0293-5|location=Paris, France|oclc=1003630046|date = 2016-03-29}}</ref>

Scilab is one of the two major open-source alternatives to [[MATLAB]], the other one being [[GNU Octave]].<ref name="Trappenberg2010">{{cite book|author=Thomas Trappenberg|title=Fundamentals of Computational Neuroscience|year=2010|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-956841-3|page=361}}</ref><ref name="MuhammadZalizniak2011">{{cite book|author1=A Muhammad|author2=V Zalizniak|title=Practical Scientific Computing|year=2011|publisher=[[Woodhead Publishing]]|isbn=978-0-85709-226-7|page=3}}</ref><ref name="MegreyMoksness2008">{{cite book|author1=Bernard A. Megrey|author2=Erlend Moksness|title=Computers in Fisheries Research|year=2008|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4020-8636-6|page=345}}</ref><ref name="Kapuno2008">{{cite book|author=Raul Raymond Kapuno|title=Programming for Chemical Engineers Using C, C++, and MATLAB|year=2008|publisher=Jones & Bartlett Publishers|isbn=978-1-934015-09-4|page=365}}</ref> Scilab puts less emphasis on syntactic compatibility with MATLAB than Octave does,<ref name="Trappenberg2010"/><ref name="Herman2013">{{cite book|author=Russell L. Herman|title=A Course in Mathematical Methods for Physicists|year=2013|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-4665-8467-9|page=42}}</ref><ref name="WouwerSaucez2014">{{cite book|author1=Alain Vande Wouwer|author2=Philippe Saucez|author3=Carlos Vilas|title=Simulation of ODE/PDE Models with MATLAB, OCTAVE and SCILAB: Scientific and Engineering Applications|year=2014|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-06790-2|pages=114–115}}</ref> but it is similar enough that some authors suggest that it is easy to transfer skills between the two systems.<ref name="Haidekker2013">{{cite book|author=Mark A. Haidekker|title=Linear Feedback Controls: The Essentials|year=2013|publisher=Newnes|isbn=978-0-12-405513-1|page=3}}</ref>