MATLAB clones?

For those of us not blessed with free access to Matlab based
upon job or Alma Mater, what is a good choice in the clones?

www.scilab.org is given as a good one, but I cannot get to it
from here in the evenings, for some reason (although tracert
get to it in 35 msecs)

"Airy R. Bean" wrote:
> 
> For those of us not blessed with free access to Matlab based
> upon job or Alma Mater, what is a good choice in the clones?
> 
> www.scilab.org is given as a good one, but I cannot get to it
> from here in the evenings, for some reason (although tracert
> get to it in 35 msecs)

I never tried scilab, but use Octave (on Linux):

    http://www.octave.org/

regularly. There are win32 versions available.

Erik
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In your experience, does it have the signal processing
capability to simulate/calculate the various MATLAB
exercises that one is likely to come across?

Do you use it for DSP work?

"Erik de Castro Lopo" <nospam@mega-nerd.com> wrote in message
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> "Airy R. Bean" wrote:
> > For those of us not blessed with free access to Matlab based
> > upon job or Alma Mater, what is a good choice in the clones?
> > www.scilab.org is given as a good one, but I cannot get to it
> > from here in the evenings, for some reason (although tracert
> > get to it in 35 msecs)
> I never tried scilab, but use Octave (on Linux):
>     http://www.octave.org/
> regularly. There are win32 versions available.

"Airy R. Bean" wrote:
> 
> In your experience, does it have the signal processing
> capability to simulate/calculate the various MATLAB
> exercises that one is likely to come across?

The singal processing toolbox is not as good as the one
in matlab, even with the third party signal processing
addins like these:

   http://users.powernet.co.uk/kienzle/octave/

> Do you use it for DSP work?

95% of the stuff I do in Octave is DSP related.

Erik
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> The singal processing toolbox is not as good as the one
> in matlab, even with the third party signal processing
> addins like these:

Could you tell me how much it is poor than the original one, firstly?
Second, is the octave really enough compatible to use
the original code with nearly no modification?
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"Erik de Castro Lopo" <nospam@mega-nerd.com> wrote in message
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> "Airy R. Bean" wrote:
> >
> > In your experience, does it have the signal processing
> > capability to simulate/calculate the various MATLAB
> > exercises that one is likely to come across?
>
> The singal processing toolbox is not as good as the one
> in matlab, even with the third party signal processing
> addins like these:
>
>    http://users.powernet.co.uk/kienzle/octave/
>
> > Do you use it for DSP work?
>
> 95% of the stuff I do in Octave is DSP related.
>
> Erik
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> +-----------------------------------------------------------+
>   Erik de Castro Lopo  nospam@mega-nerd.com (Yes it's valid)
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> Complex problems have simple easy to understand wrong answers.