Scilab
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Scilab is a free and open-source, cross-platform numerical computational package and a high-level, numerically oriented programming language. It can be used for signal processing, statistical analysis, image enhancement, fluid dynamics simulations, numerical optimization, and modeling, simulation of explicit and implicit dynamical systems and (if the corresponding toolbox is installed) symbolic manipulations.[2][3][4]
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Developer(s) | Dassault Systèmes |
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Written in | Scilab, C, C++, Java, Fortran |
Operating system | BSDs (e.g., FreeBSD), Linux, macOS, Windows |
Available in | English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Czech, Polish |
Type | Technical computing |
License | GPLv2, previously CeCILL |
Website | www |
Scilab is one of the two major open-source alternatives to MATLAB, the other one being GNU Octave.[5][6][7][8] Scilab puts less emphasis on syntactic compatibility with MATLAB than Octave does,[5][9][10] but it is similar enough that some authors suggest that it is easy to transfer skills between the two systems.[11]