octave-common 3.8.2-4 (powerpc binary) in ubuntu vivid

 Octave is a (mostly Matlab (R) compatible) high-level language, primarily
 intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command-line
 interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically.
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 Octave can be dynamically extended with user-supplied C++ files.
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 This package provides the architecture-independent files (Octave scripts
 and other helper files).