Introduction to Octave
Sandeep Nagar · Apress eBooks · 2017
Modern times have seen an exponential growth in scientific knowledge. Computing devices have benefited the most from this increase in knowledge. They started with mechanical solutions, whereby lever- and pulley-based computers were used to perform complex calculations with progressively fewer interventions. But mechanical systems were notorious slow and inefficient and there were energy concerns too. When vacuum tube based transistors were invented, they were applied to this domain. Vacuum tube based computers entered the research labs of academia and industry alike. During WWII, they were used to run programs to crack enemy codes as well as to simulate various scenarios for designing weapons. This infused much needed money and talent in this area and, within few years, the overall efficiency of computing devices saw an amazing exponential increase. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.