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GNU Octave : beginner's guide : become a proficient Octave user by learning this high-level scientific numerical tool from the ground up /

Become a proficient Octave user by learning this high-level scientific numerical tool from the ground up.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schmidt Hansen, Jesper
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham, UK : Packt Pub., 2011.
Colección:Learn by doing : less theory, more results.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1:Introducing GNU Octave; So what is GNU Octave?; Applications; Limitations of Octave; Octave and MATLAB; The Octave community; Installing Octave; Windows; GNU/Linux; Building Octave from the source under GNU/Linux; Time for action
  • building Octave from source; Checking your installation with peaks; Time for action
  • testing with peaks; Customizing Octave; Time for action
  • creating an Octave home directory under Windows.; Creating your first .octaverc file
  • Time for action
  • editing the .octaverc fileMore on .octaverc; Installing additional packages; Time for action
  • installing additional packages; Uninstalling a package; Getting help; The behaviour of the Octave command prompt; Summary; Chapter 2:Interacting with Octave: Variables and Operators; Simple numerical variables; Accessing and changing array elements; More examples; Time for action
  • manipulating arrays; Complex variables; Text variables; Higher-dimensional arrays; Structures and cell arrays; Structures; Time for action
  • instantiating a structure; Accessing structure fields
  • Cell arraysTime for action
  • instantiating a cell array; Getting information; Time for action
  • using whos; Size, rows, columns, and length; Identifying the variable type; Deleting variables from the workspace; A few things that make life easier; Basic arithmetic; Addition and subtraction; Time for action
  • doing addition and subtraction operations; Matrix multiplication; Time for action
  • doing multiplication operations; Element-by-element, power, and transpose operations; Operators for structures and cell arrays; Solving linear equation systems: left and right division
  • Time for action
  • doing left and right divisionBasic arithmetic for complex variables; Summary of arithmetic operators; Comparison operators and precedence rules; Precedence rules; Time for action
  • working with precedence rules; A few hints; Summary; Chapter 3:Working with Octave: Functions and Plotting; Octave functions; Mathematical functions; Time for action
  • using the cos function; Polynomials in Octave; More complicated mathematical functions; Time for action
  • putting together mathematical functions; Helper functions; Generating random numbers; min and max; Sorting arrays
  • Find, any, and allfloor, ceil, round, and fix; Time for action
  • trying out floor, ceil, round, and fix; sum and prod; Absolute values; Complex input arguments; Operator functions; Linear algebra; Time for action
  • using Octave for advanced linear algebra; Polynomials; Two-dimensional plotting; Time for action
  • making your first plot; plot and set; Time for action
  • changing the figure properties; Adding lines and text to your plot; Plot styles and colors; Title and legends; Ticks; Grids; fplot; Clear the figure window; Moving on; Time for action
  • having multiple graphs in the same figure