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coldtea on June 23, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Emacs for Data Science

Actually Octavius itself derives from the latin for "eight" (octavus, which is were the music term also got it name).

jordigh on June 23, 2015 [–]

Yes, of course, but the number eight means more than just music.

Sorry, it's a pet peeve of mine that people keep thinking that GNU Octave has something to do with music.

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