{"id":3460,"date":"2011-11-03T23:08:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T21:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2014-06-17T22:38:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T20:38:43","slug":"numerics-with-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/03\/numerics-with-python\/","title":{"rendered":"Numerics with Python"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/matplotlib.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3461 size-medium\" title=\"matplotlib\" src=\"http:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/matplotlib-300x55.png\" alt=\"matplotlib\" width=\"300\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/matplotlib-300x55.png 300w, https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/matplotlib.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I use like many others the free software <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GNU_Octave\">GNU Octave<\/a> for my numerical computations. Just like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scilab\">Scilab<\/a>, Octave serves as a good free alternative to the commercial software Matlab. I prefer Octave over Scilab because it belongs to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GNU_Project\">GNU Project<\/a> and because its syntax is more compatible with the one of Matlab (official objective of Octave). Scilab is quite popular in France for various reasons. Actually, one can also use the more recent <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Python_%28programming_language%29\">Python<\/a> packages <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matplotlib\">matplotlib<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SciPy\">SciPy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NumPy\">NumPy<\/a>. You may browse the <a href=\"http:\/\/matplotlib.sourceforge.net\/gallery.html\">online matplotlib gallery<\/a>. The installation of matplotlib\/SciPy\/NumPy is fearly easy on a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Debian\">Debian GNU\/Linux<\/a> system:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>sudo apt-get install python-matplotlib ipython<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you do not know it yet, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ipython\">iphyton<\/a> is <em>``an interactive shell for the Python programming language that offers enhanced introspection, additional shell syntax, tab completion and rich history<\/em>''.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use like many others the free software GNU Octave for my numerical computations. Just like Scilab, Octave serves as a good free alternative to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/03\/numerics-with-python\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Numerics with Python<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":27},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7447,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions\/7447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}