octave: octave - GNU Octave octave: octave: GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical octave: computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving octave: linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other octave: numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with octave: Matlab. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language. octave: octave: octave: octave: