Fedora 19 Update: scilab-5.4.1-4.fc19
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-8743
2013-05-21 17:00:44
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Name : scilab
Product : Fedora 19
Version : 5.4.1
Release : 4.fc19
URL : http://www.scilab.org/
Summary : Scientific software package for numerical computations
Description :
Scilab is the free software for numerical computation providing a powerful
computing environment for engineering and scientific applications. It
includes hundreds of mathematical functions. It has a high level programming
language allowing access to advanced data structures, 2-D and 3-D graphical
functions.
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Update Information:
This release includes many bug fixes and performance improvements in Scilab graphics,
enabling Scilab to display bigger data sets and improve the portability of Scilab on
different graphic cards. New commands have been added to launch SciNotes and Xcos directly
from
command line.
Xcos now includes new solvers for simulation:
* LSodar: Automatically switches methods to efficiently solve both stiff and nonstiff
problems. It includes a rootfinding feature.
* Dormand-Prince 4(5) and Runge-Kutta 4(5): Fixed-size step solvers added to the CVode
package, they also benefit from the rootfinding feature.
* Implicit Runge-Kutta 4(5): Fixed-size step solver added to the CVode package to benefit
from the CVode rootfinding feature.
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update scilab' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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