### 1.2 Simple Examples ¶

The following chapters describe all of Octave’s features in detail, but before doing that, it might be helpful to give a sampling of some of its capabilities.

If you are new to Octave, we recommend that you try these examples to begin learning Octave by using it. Lines marked like so, ‘`octave:13>`’ or ‘`>>` ’, are lines you type, ending each with a carriage return. (Don’t type the text ‘`octave:13>`’ itself! That is only the Octave prompt, which also looks like `>>` in the GUI. Octave will respond to your commands with an answer, or by displaying a graph.