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How do I run a Linux shell command from Octave?
I want to run commands like 'pdflatex' and 'cp' from an octave script. Is there a way to do that?
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Conditional variables depending on whether Matlab or Octave is running the code
I have written some code for Matlab/Octave. Basically, they have the same syntax and everything, but, for example, they have different functions for optimization (linprog/glpk,quadprog/qp).
I want ...
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Installing Octave on Red Hat
I am trying to reinstall Octave on Red Hat. I currently have Octave 2.4 installed on the computer, but it is too old and some of my scripts are not running.
On the Octave wiki it says:
Octave is ...
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Plotting from .m file with Octave for Windows does not show plot
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
http://octave.sourceforge.net/
Octave-3.2.4_i686-pc-mingw32_gcc-4.4.0_setup.exe
While
plot(1:4)
works from the Octave prompt, using
octave my.m
does not ...
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Why does the expression exp(i*pi) return the wrong result in GNU Octave?
I started to learn GNU Octave today, and tried the first expression given in the manual
exp(i*pi)
The result is
ans = -1.0000e+000 + 1.2246e-016i
And it seems GNU Scientific Library gives ...
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Completely remove/ uninstall Octave from my mac machine
Does anyone have any idea how I can completely remove/delete/uninstall all trace of Octave from my mac machine? Preferably via Terminal in a very swift action?
Thanks,
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Displaying a sequence of images in Linux
I'm generating a sequence of images saved as .PNG files on disk, labelled say plot001.png, plot002.png, plot003.png. These are actually saved plots from Octave, a scientific data ...
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Octave: refer to output like %10 in Mathematica?
I want to reuse values. Is there a similar functionality as %10 of Mathematica in Octave?
octave:18> 3/log (2)
ans = 4.32808512266689
octave:19> % //how to output 4.328....
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Octave: Precise value in Decimal or Continuous Fraction for 729 / 4^3
I get the approximation:
>> 729 / 4^3
11.391
Is there some function to get more precise approximation?
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Octave: how to do binary calculations?
What is the Octave NaN for? Is dot wrong delimiter?
>> bin2dec ('10.1')
ans = NaN
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GNU Octave: How to change base from DEC to BIN?
I need to do many binary calculations of the form:
10.1^(1/11) base 2
10.001^(1/11) base 2
10.0001^(1/11) base 2
10.00001^(1/11) base 2
10.000001^(1/11) base 2
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where 1/11 base 2 = 1/3 base 10.
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