From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Sep 14 10:14:43 1999
Subject: Re: Solving Differental equations...
From: Ben Sapp <bsapp at nua dot lampf dot lanl dot gov>
To: Adam Balgach <balgacha at purdue dot edu>
CC: Octave Mailing List <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 09:14:39 -0600

Adam Balgach wrote:
> 
> Can octave do this? im looking for some similar commands in matlab such as
> 
> trapz(x,y) which uses the trapozoidal rule to integrate
> 
> are there other funcitons for integration ?
> or any for finding the derivatives of fuctions ?

lsode is very good at solving differential equations.  The manual has
excellent documentation on it.   I do not know of any thing to do the
trapezoidal rule for you.  You could write one though! :)  I am sure all
Octave users would be appreciative. 
 
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