GNU Octave Alternatives

GNU Octave is described as 'Octave is a computer program for performing numerical computations which is mostly compatible with MATLAB . It is part of the GNU Project. It is free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License' and is a very popular numerical computation software in the education & reference category. There are more than 50 alternatives to GNU Octave for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Android apps. The best GNU Octave alternative is R (programming language), which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GNU Octave are Jupyter, MATLAB, Mathematica and SageMath.

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  1. SSPlot icon
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    A simple plotter and numerical solver, which can plot CSV style plain text files with numerical data separated by whitespace, as well can numerically solve equations and ODEs to generate data and plot them for studying dynamical systems.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
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  2. GAP icon
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    GAP is a system for computational discrete algebra, with particular emphasis on Computational Group Theory. GAP provides a programming language, a library of thousands of functions implementing algebraic algorithms written in the GAP language as well as large data libraries of...

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. Chapel icon
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    Chapel is a programming language designed for productive parallel computing at scale.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
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  4. ELKI icon
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    ELKI: "Environment for Developing KDD-Applications Supported by Index-Structures" is a development framework for data mining algorithms written in Java. It includes a large variety of popular data mining algorithms, distance functions and index structures.

    20 ELKI alternatives

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  5. CloudStat icon
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    CloudStat is the cloud environment for building statistical applications collaboratively.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Online
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  6. Ascend icon
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    Open-source software for mathematical modeling, nonlinear equations, and optimization problems, supporting dynamic systems and large-scale models, with both command-line and graphical interfaces, specialized modeling language, and advanced solver architecture.

    42 Ascend alternatives

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    • Linux
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  7. Woxi icon
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    Wolfram Language / Mathematica reimplementation in Rust.

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    • Online
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Cadabra is a computer algebra system (CAS) designed specifically for the solution of problems encountered in field theory. It has extensive functionality for tensor computer algebra, tensor polynomial simplification including multi-term symmetries, fermions and anti-commuting...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. RunMat icon
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    RunMat is an open-source, GPU-accelerated runtime for MATLAB-syntax code. Engineers bring their existing .m files and run them — most work unmodified.

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    • Online
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    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Google Chrome
    • Self-Hosted
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • Chrome OS
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  10. OpenAxiom icon
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    OpenAxiom, fork of Axiom , is an open source platform for symbolic, algebraic, and numerical computations. It offers an interactive environment, an expressive programming language, a compiler, a large set of mathematical libraries of interest...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. Doronix Math Toolbox is a numerical computing environment with programming language which can be used as alternative to MATLAB. It allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user functions, import and export CSV-files...

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. Reinteract icon
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    Reinteract is a system for interactive experimentation with Python. Reinteract worksheets contain Python code combined with the results of that code, formatted as text or graphical plots. Youu can go back and edit previously entered statements, and the results will update.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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