Octave has a symbolic computation package!
15 Apr 2022I was happy to learn that Octave has a symbolic computation package! I last used Matlab’s version in grad school to compute analytical Jacobians.
To use, have octave installed and the symbolic package
sudo apt install octave-symbolic
and then example use is below:
pkg load symbolic
syms xw yw zw w
X = [xw; yw; zw; w];
Octave docs – symbolic package.