[OLPC library] MATLAB for OLPC?

[Marcus Leech]

C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On Jan 28, 2008 5:24 PM, Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> wrote:
>   
>> On Jan 28, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Cleve Moler wrote:
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>>> (I doubt that MATLAB runs in the OLPC, but I'm not sure.)
>>>       
>
> There are a number of open-source replacements for MATLAB, including
> GNU Octave ( http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ ) and Maxima (
> http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ ).
>  --scott
>
>   
I was just about to say the same thing.

There's also "R" (The open-source replacement for 'S').

When my daughter was taking introductory algebra, I showed here the
  algebraic solver in xMaxima.  She said "that's cheating" :-)
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