Comparison of numerical analysis software

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The following tables provide a comparison of numerical analysis software.

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[edit] General

Creator Development started First public release Latest stable version Cost (USD) License Notes
Euler Math Toolbox R. Grothmann 5.0 / 2008 Free GPL Also a computer algebra system thru interface with Maxima
GAUSS Aptech Systems 1984 8.0 / 2006 Proprietary mainly used in econometrics
IGOR Pro WaveMetrics 1986 1988 6.03A / 2008 $550 (commercial) / $395 (academic) / $85 (student) Proprietary interactive graphics, programmable, 2D/3D, used for science and engineering, large data sets.
LabVIEW National Instruments 1985 8.5 / 2007 $1199 (commercial) / $79.95 (student) Proprietary Graphical and textual (.m file script) programming approaches
Mathematica Wolfram Research 1986 1988 6.0.2 / 2008 $1880 (commercial) / $145 (student) Proprietary also a computer algebra system
MATLAB The MathWorks the late 1970s R2008a / 2008 $1900 (commercial) / $99 (student) Proprietary
GNU Octave John W. Eaton around 1988 1993 3.0.1 / 2008 Free GPL mostly compatible with MATLAB
Perl Data Language Karl Glazebrook late 1990s c. 1997 2.4.3 / 2007 Free GPL Used for astrophysics, solar physics, oceanography, biophysics, and simulation. 2D plotting via PGPLOT, PLPlot bindings; 3D via GL.
R R Foundation 1997 1997 2.6.2 / 2008 Free GPL Primarily for statistics, but there are many interfaces to open-source numerical software
S-Lang John E. Davis 1992 2.1.3 / 2007 Free GPL, Artistic License (1.x only) Available as a standalone (slsh) and embedded interpreter (jed, slrn, ...)
Scilab INRIA 1994 4.1.1 / 2007 Free SCILAB license "open source" but not compatible with the OSI
SciPy Enthought late 1990s 0.6.0 / 2007 Free BSD based on Python
Sysquake Calerga 1998 4.0 / 2007 $2000 (commercial) / $800 (academic) / free (LE version) Proprietary interactive graphics
ILNumerics.Net Haymo Kutschbach 2005 2007 1.9 / 01.2008 Free LGPL aims .Net/mono, 2D/3D plottings (beta)
FreeMat Samit Basu 3.6 / March 17, 2008 Free GPL codeless interface to external C, C++, and Fortran code

[edit] Operating system support

The operating systems the software can run on natively (without emulation).

Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix
Euler Math Toolbox Yes No Yes No No
GAUSS Yes Yes Yes No Yes
IGOR Pro Yes Yes No No No
LabVIEW Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Mathematica Yes Yes Yes No Yes
MATLAB Yes Yes Yes No Yes
GNU Octave Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Perl Data Language Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
R Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
S-Lang Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Scilab Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SciPy Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sysquake Yes Yes Yes No No
ILNumerics.Net Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
FreeMat Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

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