Octave presentation

[David Bateman]

Søren Hauberg wrote:
> tir, 04 11 2008 kl. 12:57 +0100, skrev Jaroslav Hajek:
>   
>> if anyone is interested, I'm sharing a simple presentation that I'm
>> going to use in my talk about Octave at Prague university.
>> It is not intended to be a tutorial to Octave, but an informational
>> intro about Octave and Free Software in general.
>> Comments from anyone are welcome, as well as modifications or
>> graphical adjustments.
>> (PS: Yes, you may find it rather curt. I like minimalistic presentations.)
>>     
>
> 250K users? How did you arrive at that value? (I'm not saying it's
> wrong, I'm just curious about how the number was generated -- mine would
> be based on calls to 'rand ()')
>
> Søren
>
>   

~70k Windows downloads recently
another ~20k Mac downloads
then estimate that linux is the preferred platform for Octave and double 
the numbers..

250k users seems to me to be a very reasonable estimate..

D.


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