[Mep-dev] Site Statistics for October + math software?

[Dave hartzell]

> The programs I'm familiar with include excel and matlab. I haven't yet tried
> Sage, which is an open-source math program. There is also Maple.
>
> I think it would be great to use open-source software whenever possible. Has
> anyone out there used Sage or another open-source math software package?

Gnu Octave is a pretty good and a mature Matlab "clone".  Code I have
written has been relatively portable between both the commercial
Matlab and Octave.  Plus, Matlab is fairly available at work places,
schools, etc.

Octave exists for Linux, Windows, Mac, etc.  There is no Simulink-like
capability though, which might be useful for system modeling.
Organizations like AMSAT might have licenses available...

Dave
AF6KD