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GNU Octave 5.2.0 Released
- qubex 7y agoI remember using really early versions of Octave back in the second half of the nineties on my Slackware installation. Back then I had a student edition release of Matlab but I couldn’t afford Mathematica (and my system probably wouldn’t have been able to run it decoriously either). I remember I used it mainly for the CAS/symbolic capabilities and it and that reading its source code was my first exposure to how symbolic algebra could be implemented. It was pretty interesting. To be frank, numerical computation is not something that interests me these days. Symbolic calculation is so much richer and more nuanced.