dear friends
can i Replace Matlab & Simulink -with Octave - since the later one is Open Source
look forward to hear from you
I'm also interested... I want to get Matlab but since I'm not in school it's expensive. GNU Octave looks like a great solution!
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Consider Scilab (free MATLAB replacement). For what I have tried, it works as well as MATLAB but the syntax is slightly different.
It all depends on what you want to do with it.
MATLAB/Simulink has lots of features and many different toolboxes, many of which have no direct Octave alternative, however, most tasks can be achieved using open-source alternatives, in one way or another, however cumbersome.
Pieter