On 0, Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 0, Oleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 07 October 2002 02:54 am, Musang S.X. wrote: > > > Hi! I notice many students are using MATLAB at my > > > school/campus, and I suspect most are pirated > > > versions... > > > > > > Is there any free software version of MATLAB that I > > > can use/suggest as an alternative? > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > Octave and SciLab. They don't really measure up to MATLAB with its really > > extensive toolboxes, but they are OK for basic linear algebra. > > I use Octave for a lot of signal processing and control stuff as > well. It covers pretty much everything they will need for an > undergraduate electrical engineering course.
Sorry to reply to my own posts, but I just remembered that there is an academic version of MATLAB at quite a reasonable price. A few years ago our school of engineering gave all new students a copy of it, but I guess you'd have to discuss that with MathWorks. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Classifications of inanimate objects: Those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
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