Re: How does Octave shine?

[David Bateman]

Cameron Laird wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 02:21:47PM -0700, Steve C. Thompson wrote:
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>> Octave is free software licensed under the GNU General
>> Public License---I can install it and run it on as many
>> computers as I can get my hands on without being
>> hassled by a vender---I can view the source code.
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>> PS: Maybe post your slides when they are finished?
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> I make what I do as public as possible.  <URL:
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-oslab/ >
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> I apologize for not writing clearly.  I'm well aware 
> of Octave's license.  I should have explained that I'm
> looking for *functional* advantages of Octave I can
> tout.  I have an audience that's suspicious about
> open-source software; once I show 'em a few technical
> features of Octave, though, I expect to be able to
> make a lot of progress with them.  

If you have the matlab communications toolbox, one nasty example for
matlab I like is

N=5; for n=100:100:500, t=cputime(); inv(gf(randint(n,n,2^N), N));
cputime() - t, end


try this with octave-forge forges communications toolbox. And this is a
realistic thing to want to do in communications i you deal with LDPC codes.

D.