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This programming language includes easter eggs such as producing a dog’s face when running the function “spy” with no argument. Fourth- and fifth-order methods are compared using this language’s built-in “ode45” (“O-D-E-four-five”) solver, which can be sped (10[1])up for large use-cases with this language’s built-in Parallel Computing Toolbox. GNU Octave is a free, open-source alternative to this language, which uses (-5[1])a semicolon to suppress output. (10[1])Executable code (10[1]-5[1])can be combined with formatted text and images in this language’s “live script” mode. A graphical environment used for controller modeling within this language is called Simulink. For 10 points, MathWorks (10[2])develops (10[1])what (10[1])engineering (10[2])programming language, which is used for its ease of manipulating matrices? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: MATLAB [accept MATrix LABoratory; accept GNU Octave until read]
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