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Welcome to Octave Online

Octave Online is a web UI for GNU Octave, the open-source alternative to MATLAB. Thousands of students, educators, and researchers from around the world use Octave Online each day for studying machine learning, control systems, numerical methods, and more.

fminbnd(@(x) x .* log(x), 0, 1) — Type commands in the prompt like you would in your local copy of GNU Octave or MATLAB.

0.36788 — Type commands in the prompt like you would in your local copy of GNU Octave or MATLAB.

plot showing a sombrero — Plot charts and graphs.

cstr_reactor.m — Sign in for more features: script files, buckets, real-time collaboration like Google Docs, extended runtime, and more.

A "bucket" is the way to share snapshots of script and data files. A "project" is an editable workspace to organize script and data files.

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