Have a look at SciLab. It's an almost exact clone of Matlab - to the point where I did a math course which required matlab, only I used scilab. When submitting my code all I had to change was the comment symbol and the function parameters were back to front. Even the function names are the same.. All your old friends are there, like plot, plot2d and plot3d, as well as some useful expansion toolboxes.

It goes without saying that it does matrixes very well.

If you really want a perl solution, there are some CPAN modules called PDL that are apparently as powerful as matlab - the learning curve was too steep for me.

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In reply to Re: Is there a Matrix module that supports BigFloat? by jepri
in thread Is there a Matrix module that supports BigFloat? by metadoktor

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