Scilab Introduction
1) Introduction
■Scilab is open source powerful
computing environment for
scientific and engineering applications.
■Scilab is one of major alternative for Matlab.
■Matrix is main data type.
■It includes many mathematical functions-e.g. maths and statistics, 2D and 3D visualization, signal Processing , Image Processing, control system
and so on…
2) Difference between Matlab
and Scilab
3) Scilab Console
Scilab Console
is a place where we will interact with Scilab using commands. Scilab console consists
of Command Prompt, Variable Browser, Command History and Current directory windows.
In Command prompt we will type command and can see the output. Variable browser
is showing current variables used, double clicking on variable we can check
value of it. Command history shows which commands were typed in command
prompt. Current directory window shows
files or folders from current working directory.
4) SciNotes
It is window provided for writing whole scilab script, execute and save with. sce extension for further use. SciNotes is having advantage that you can do any changes in script and execute anytime but it is not possible in command prompt. It can be opened by clicking launch SciNotes icon.
5) Scilab Predefined constants
Constant
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Value
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Explanation
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%pi
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Π=3.1415927….
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Pi
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%i
|
i = √-1
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Imaginary value
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%e
|
e=2.7182818….
|
Constant e
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%nan
|
Not a number
|
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%inf
|
Infinity
|
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%t,
%T
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True
|
Boolean Value
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%f,
%F
|
False
|
Boolean Value
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6) How to Install package in Scilab
For installing package in Scilab go to Applications-> Module manager ATOMS and click. It will take some time to display module list.Select package which you want to install. Click on Install. It will install package within few minutes.
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| Selection of Module Manager (ATOMS) |
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| Module List |
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| Installation of Package |
