Re: GNU Octave's most widely used functions

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Dupuis <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Alejandra Alvarez wrote:
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>> Hi. I wonder if any of you knows whether there are any official surveys or
>> source to help me find more information on the functions used in GNU
>> Octave,
>> in the engineering area, being more speciesism in the control area.
>> That information I need for my degree project.
>> I need to make some examples of the most important or most widely used
>> functions in this area.
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> Hello Alejandra,
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> I guess that the answer largelly depends from the background of the peoples
> working with Octave. At the beginning, my guess is that the most used
> functions where in the area of the numerical solution of differential
> equations, as well as signal filtering, including filter design. Then it
> grew and grew and grew, under user's contributions. I used it personaly in
> area like algebra (solving overdetermined set of equations in the form Ax=b,
> where some columns of A where noised), system modeling, non-linear signal
> filtering, robust statistics, ...
> Regards
>
> Pascal


I think this depends on how you define "most used". For instance, if
you mean the most frequent calls (incl. from other functions), then I
bet the winners will be amongst the simplest & stupidest functions,
like "size" or "any".


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