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GNU Octave Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   GNU Octave Beginner's Guide Become a proficient Octave user by learning this high-level scientific numerical tool from the ground up

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849513326
Length 280 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jesper Schmidt Hansen Jesper Schmidt Hansen
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

GNU Octave
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. Introducing GNU Octave FREE CHAPTER 2. Interacting with Octave: Variables and Operators 3. Working with Octave: Functions and Plotting 4. Rationalizing: Octave Scripts 5. Extensions: Write Your Own Octave Functions 6. Making Your Own Package: A Poisson Equation Solver 7. More Examples: Data Analysis 8. Need for Speed: Optimization and Dynamically Linked Functions Pop quiz - Answers

Summary


We went through a lot of the basics in this chapter! Specifically, we learned:

  • How to instantiate scalar, vector, and matrix variables.

  • How to instantiate complex variables.

  • How to instantiate a text string.

  • How to access and change the values of array elements.

  • About structures, cell arrays, and multidimensional arrays.

  • How to retrieve important information about the variables.

  • How to add and subtract vectors and matrices.

  • About matrix multiplication.

  • Solving linear equation systems.

  • How to compare scalars, vectors, and matrices.

  • Some additional helpful functionality.

  • Precedence rules.

In the next chapter, we will learn about Octave functions and how to do plotting. We shall make use of many of the things that we have just learned in this chapter.

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