gnu-octave/symbolic

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A Symbolic Package for Octave using SymPy

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Forks: 37
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 108
Avg merge: 25m
Merged PRs (30d): 1

Dominant language: MATLAB
License: GPL-3.0
Last GitHub push: Aug 22, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
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108 open issues indexed

Finite blocking time in readblock Open

enhancement

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gnu-octave/symbolic#1341 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 21, 2026
`solve` returns cell array of structs, which differs from SMT Open

compat_smt

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1330 · 8 comments · Opened Jan 5, 2026
Possible tutorial on Octave Symbolic Open

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gnu-octave/symbolic#1329 · 11 comments · Opened Oct 2, 2025
Using solve on a equation of specific format woulld return 0x0 cell unexpectively Open

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gnu-octave/symbolic#1325 · Opened May 29, 2025
warning('on', 'all') leads to many Octave warnings Open

upstream

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gnu-octave/symbolic#1317 · 14 comments · Opened Dec 3, 2024
deprecation warning using `solve`: "non-Expr objects in a Matrix is deprecated" Open

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gnu-octave/symbolic#1310 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 19, 2024
`limit` of `diff` where `a` is a symbol Open

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gnu-octave/symbolic#1308 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 19, 2024
Error: Simple expressions can yield outputs with more than 4300 characters Open

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gnu-octave/symbolic#1304 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 2, 2024
"See also" help is doubling all the `@` signs Open

unconfirmed

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gnu-octave/symbolic#1288 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 29, 2024
isequal of two unit vpa precisions Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1285 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 6, 2024
piecewise: matlab compatibility issue for certain interval forms Open

compat_smt

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1277 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 26, 2023
vpasolve compatibility: multivariable outputs should return as a struct Open

compat_smt

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1276 · Opened Oct 19, 2023
sym(x, 'r') heuristics poor for small x < 1e-17 Open

bug compat_smt workaround

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1272 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 11, 2023
Using octsympy in MATLAB Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1256 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 29, 2023
vertcat: does not show error message for incompatible columns Open

upstream

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gnu-octave/symbolic#1238 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 13, 2022
make_2d_sym: support flat list + shape input Open

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gnu-octave/symbolic#1236 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 13, 2022
Array_not_Matrix: can reference 1x1 Array Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1232 · Opened Sep 7, 2022
Array_not_Matrix: uniop_bool_helper may not work with Array Open

longterm

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1225 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 2, 2022
@sym/{ctranspose,transpose}: *transpose does not work on None Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1215 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 30, 2022
Makefile: Compute and display SHA-256 of tarballs in `make release` Open

longterm upstream

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1208 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 12, 2022
CI: Test if build is reproducible Open

longterm

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1206 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 12, 2022
release: Sign release with GPG Open

gnu-octave/symbolic#1203 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 9, 2022
ipc_system: use Octave's `python` on Octave 7.2.0 Open

longterm

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1189 · Opened Jul 9, 2022
Investigate PKG_DEL scripts Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1176 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 5, 2022
Use actions to automate releases on tag push Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1166 · Opened Jul 1, 2022
new octave forge allows installing of dev releases? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1164 · Opened Jun 30, 2022
error: ignoring const execution_exception& while preparing to exit Open

upstream

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gnu-octave/symbolic#1163 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 30, 2022
CI: still seeing "fatal: unsafe repository" Open

upstream

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1161 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 30, 2022
modernize packaging Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1155 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 28, 2022
Create temporary files w/o race conditions whenever possible Open

gnu-octave/symbolic#1145 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 22, 2022
Octave: Document the inherit security risks of `tempname` and `system` Open

longterm upstream

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1144 · Opened Jun 22, 2022
sympref: Document the inherent insecurity of some IPC mechanisms (e.g. system) Open

longterm

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1143 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 22, 2022
CI: Catch issues similar to #1060 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1141 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 21, 2022
Pythonic support: improvements to collections Open

upstream

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1138 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 18, 2022
tracker issue for non-Expr in matrices Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1124 · 13 comments · Opened May 6, 2022
Revisit symsize matrices and failing test in children.m Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1089 · Opened Apr 3, 2022
CI: try a linter and see what is does Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1070 · Opened Mar 29, 2022
ellipticPi precision regression Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1064 · Opened Mar 28, 2022
solve should output the result in the order you specify the variables in Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1059 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 9, 2022
vpa returns complex infinity 'zoo' vs -Inf Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1057 · Opened Dec 13, 2021
laplace test giving deprecation warning on SymPy > 1.9 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1052 · 7 comments · Opened Oct 16, 2021
prevent "pi" or any selected symbol being used when evaluating statements, when calculating pi itself Open

workaround

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1050 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 18, 2021
arrayfun with symbolic array Open

upstream

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1046 · 1 comment · Opened May 27, 2021
should no-variable inputs to solve provide a warning? Open

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gnu-octave/symbolic#1045 · Opened Apr 5, 2021
Inverse laplace transforms failing to complete transformation of equation Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1036 · Opened Dec 3, 2020
Package Symbolic says: Cannot run the Python executable "python3" Open

unconfirmed

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1025 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 28, 2020
Factor and Partfrac should use radicals, complex Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

gnu-octave/symbolic#1020 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 25, 2020
Symbolics are very slow Open

unconfirmed

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gnu-octave/symbolic#1014 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 23, 2020
alternative way to install python on win10 Open

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gnu-octave/symbolic#1012 · Opened Mar 16, 2020
windows and the python3 binary Open

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gnu-octave/symbolic#1010 · 6 comments · Opened Mar 11, 2020

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