octave: GNU Octave (A high-level language similar to Matlab) octave: octave: A high-level language, primarily intended for numerical octave: computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for octave: solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing octave: other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly octave: compatible with Matlab. It may also be used as a batch-oriented octave: language. octave: octave: octave: