Re: dsolve in octave?

[c.]

On 18 Dec 2010, at 23:53, v.m.1 wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm using octave 3.2.3 in ubuntu 10.04. I cant find a package for dsolve
> support.
> 
> Does octave support the function dsolve() ?
> 
> Thanks!

Hi,

Although there is a 'symbolic' package (which I never actually used) for Octave 
distributed via octave-forge,
Octave is mainly meant for doing numerical, not symbolic, calculadions. You can 
solve differential equations
in Octave with functions ad 'lsode' or 'daspk', but what you will get is a 
numerical rapresentation of the 
solution. If you really want to solve the equation analytically, I would 
recommend you try using a CAS like, 
for example, Maxima [1,2].

HTH,
c.


[1] Maxima website: http://maxima.sourceforge.net
[2] Solving differential equations with Maxima: 
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/en/maxima_22.html#SEC83