4 open source alternatives to MATLAB

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MATLAB

GNU Octave may be the best-known alternative to MATLAB. In active development for almost three decades, Octave runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac—and is packaged for most major distributions. If you're looking for a project that is as close to the actual MATLAB language as possible, Octave may be a good fit for you; it strives for exact compatibility, so many of your projects developed for MATLAB may run in Octave with no modification necessary.

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GNU Octave

GNU Octave may be the best-known alternative to MATLAB. In active development for almost three decades, Octave runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac—and is packaged for most major distributions. If you're looking for a project that is as close to the actual MATLAB language as possible, Octave may be a good fit for you; it strives for exact compatibility, so many of your projects developed for MATLAB may run in Octave with no modification necessary.

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NumPy

NumPy is the main package for scientific computing with Python (as its name suggests). It can process N-dimensional arrays, complex matrix transforms, linear algebra, Fourier transforms, and can act as a gateway for C and C++ integration. It's been used in the world of game and film visual effect development, and is the fundamental data-array structure for the SciPy Stack, an ecosystem of Python-based math, science, and engineering software. NumPy is licensed under the BSD license, and packages are available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.

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Scilab

Scilab is another open source option for numerical computing that runs across all the major platforms: Windows, Mac, and Linux included. Scilab is perhaps the best known alternative outside of Octave, and (like Octave) it is very similar to MATLAB in its implementation, although exact compatibility is not a goal of the project's developers.

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Sage Math

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Maxima

Check out Maxima, it is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, sets, lists, vectors, matrices and tensors.

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SymPy

SymPy, another BSD-licensed Python library for symbolic mathematics. It can be installed on any computer running Python. It aims to become a full computer algebra system; has an active development community with regular releases; and is used in many other projects (including SageMath, above).

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