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Octave

Last updated May 14, 2025, generated by Sumble

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What is Octave?

GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides capabilities for the numerical solution of linear and nonlinear problems, and for performing other numerical experiments. It's commonly used for algorithm development, numerical simulations, data analysis, and scientific computing, often serving as a free alternative to MATLAB.

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What other technologies are related to Octave?

Octave Competitor Technologies

Scilab is a numerical computation package that serves as a direct competitor to Octave.

mentioned alongside Octave in 19% (131) of relevant job posts

MATLAB is a commercial numerical computing environment and programming language, a primary competitor to Octave.

mentioned alongside Octave in 1% (1.8k) of relevant job posts

Python, with libraries like NumPy and SciPy, is a competitor in numerical computation.

mentioned alongside Octave in 0% (1.6k) of relevant job posts

Julia is a high-performance programming language for technical computing, competing with Octave.

mentioned alongside Octave in 1% (80) of relevant job posts

Matlab/Simulink

Simulink is a simulation environment tightly integrated with MATLAB, a direct competitor to Octave.

mentioned alongside Octave in 0% (181) of relevant job posts

R is a programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics, competing with Octave in certain areas.

mentioned alongside Octave in 0% (417) of relevant job posts

Octave Complementary Technologies

M2Extra provides extensions to Octave.

mentioned alongside Octave in 49% (57) of relevant job posts

Kalman filtering

Kalman filtering is an algorithm that can be implemented in Octave for state estimation.

mentioned alongside Octave in 8% (55) of relevant job posts

GNU Radio is a software-defined radio framework; Octave can be used for signal processing tasks related to GNU Radio.

mentioned alongside Octave in 5% (70) of relevant job posts

Which job functions mention Octave?

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Jobs mentioning Octave

Orgs mentioning Octave

Engineering & R&D

0% (1.5k) job posts

1 organizations

Engineer

0% (1.4k) job posts

132 organizations

Electrical Engineer

0% (203) job posts

31 organizations

Data Scientist

0% (149) job posts

49 organizations

Embedded Engineer

0% (84) job posts

18 organizations

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Which organizations are mentioning Octave?

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Scientific and Technical Services

CACI International

Professional Services

Intel Corporation

Manufacturing

Public Administration

Sandia National Laboratories

Other Services (except Public Administration)

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