Octave and Gnuplot Coming To Android

New submitter MathIsTasty writes "Recently, it was announced on the Octave-maintainers list that a Kickstarter campaign has been launched to bring Matlab style numerical computations and graphing to Android via a 'more than' port of Octave and gnuplot. While I doubt it will be as successful as some recent games on Kickstarter, is this a reasonable way to fund free software development? Now, we just have to worry about people working on simulating solar irradiation while driving. Here is a good blog post about the project."

Too bad it wasn't SciPy

[Anonymous Coward]

I have been a long time Matlab, but have always been frustrated with licensing issues etc.
So I have tried replacing Matlab with Octave and SciLab a couple of times, but they both feels more cumbersome to use.
About a year ago, I tried Python with the modules Numpy and SciPy, and it just completely smokes the competitors. It is much more enjoyable to work with, so people should really give it a go, it if hard work to get used to something new, but with Python, you will not be disappointed. You can get some nice inspiration of what is possible in the 3rd party documentation SciPy-Lectures:

http://scipy-lectures.github.com/

Octave Clone for Android already there

[asnelt]

There is already Addi: http://code.google.com/p/addi/ [google.com]

N900?

[Evil Pete]

Wait, what? I had gnuplot and octave on my N900. Two years ago. Gees, bit slow there android.