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We've compiled a list of 47 free and paid alternatives to Scilab. The primary competitors include MATLAB, GNU Octave. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between Scilab and R (programming language), Mathematica, Sage. Also you can look at other similar options here: Education and Reference Software.


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Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations providing a powerful open...

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Scilab Overview

Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations providing a powerful open computing environment for engineering and scientific applications. Scilab is an open source software and includes hundreds of mathematical functions with the possibility to add interactively programs from various languages (C, C++, Fortran…).
It has sophisticated data structures (including lists, polynomials, rational functions, linear systems...), an interpreter and a high level programming language.

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