Octave is a (mostly Matlab (R) compatible) high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command-line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically. . This packages provides the following documentation in html format: the FAQ, a document on the C++ classes used by Octave, as well as the main octave documentation which is also included in info format in the main Octave package. . The recommended branch of Octave is 3.0. Please, use the octave3.0-htmldoc package instead of this one, since it will be dropped after the Debian lenny release.