[Blindmath] Computational software

[Neil Soiffer]

John,

GNU Octave (https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/) is the GNU free
"equivalent" to MatLab. I haven't used it in forever, so I can't give you a
comparison or help you with its use. However, their home page says "The
Octave language is quite similar to Matlab so that most programs are easily
portable". There are links to documentation with examples from the home
page.

Hope that helps,

Neil Soiffer


On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 2:18 PM, John Gardner via Blindmath <
blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hello listers, may I request your expertise on computational math
> applications. I am told that MatLab is reasonably accessible in command
> line mode. Can you recommend other numerical computation software that is
> powerful, accessible, and less expensive than MatLab? Secondly I would
> appreciate recommendations for symbolic solution applications such as Maple
> and Mathematica. I have used both of these and found Maple in particular to
> be quite accessible in command line mode. But I have not done such work in
> many years and fear that their accessibility is not as good now.
>
> I am asking because Summer University presenters want to have workshops on
> both types of math application, but none of us is a real expert on these
> apps. FYI Summer University is a workshop associated with the ICCHP
> conference held in July in Linz, Austria. It is intended to teach blind
> students and professionals working with blind students about modern
> techniques for accessing STEM. If you can afford a trip to Austria, anyone
> in either of these categories is welcome to apply. Information on Summer
> University  is linked from the ICCP web site http://icchp.org
>
> Thanks for any help you can throw my way.
>
> John Gardner
>
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