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Summary

In this chapter, you have learned the following:

About Octave, it's strengths, and weaknesses.
How to install Octave on Windows and GNU/Linux.
To test your installation with peaks.
How to use and change the default editor.
To customized Octave. For example, we saw how to change the prompt appearance and how to add search paths.
To use the pkg command to install and remove additional packages.
About the help utility.

We are now ready to move on and learn the basics about Octave's data types and operators.

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