Information about Scilab Software

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  Abhishek Rawal

  Scilab, is an opensource(Thus,Free) alternative to Matlab.It is as powerful as Matlab,as it is Opensource a user can create his/her own function & libraries too.
  
  Inshort,It is alternative to Matlab but Free (with Freedom to modify it,if you want to by adding your self-made functions & libraries).
  A great tool!
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  Sindhu Chowdary

  can you explain me about matlab and simulation..i got confused between these two.
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  Jeffrey Arulraj

  Matlab includes Simulink which allows you to pick and place some of the most common blocks and simulate them as blocks
  
  Other is the Programmer (Dono its name) It allows you to write program for the simulation you wish to do
  
  Simulation is any thing which allows us to predict the op of the system without actually using hardware components
  
  PS: Some tutorials can help you a lot Here are a couple of them
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  Check it out simple as hell
  
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  Sindhu Chowdary

  in the pdf file they are saying that the resulting matrices must be rectangular..but i always the matrices are square matrices..
  can you clarify this?
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  Jeffrey Arulraj

  Square is a rectangle with equal rows and columns that is there
  
  But I will clarify it for you sure about it
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  Sindhu Chowdary

  ya i know that square is also a rectangle....my doubt is then there is no reason to specially mention about the type of the matrices..