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From: arxt@midway.uchicago.edu (patrick  palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: C Routines
Summary: "Numerical REcipes in C" - the book
Message-ID: <1990Jul3.193850.15879@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 3 Jul 90 19:38:50 GMT
References: <138087@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1858@trlluna.trl.oz>
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
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In article <1858@trlluna.trl.oz> aduncan@rhea.trl.oz.au (Allan Duncan) writes:
>From article <138087@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, by cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis):
>> In article <27155@cc.usu.edu> SLMT9@cc.usu.edu writes:
>>> ... After going through the Fish Disks I got a lot of good C routines. 
>> 
>> Joshua, this should be an educational exercise for you and I encourage
>
>[ much valid comment deleted ]
>
>> A trip to the library should turn up one or two and the local university
>> bookstore might have a couple more. This is one of the secrets of 
  [even more cut to make News happy]
>> together to make a program. Those programs are never as reliable
>> and efficient as they could be...
>
>This is not entirely true, in Fortran there are a number of carefully
>crafted libraries of routines that are used by those who need to do a
  [more ruthless chopping]
>I have also seen a book/disk set for both C and Fortran routines (IBM
>format, but all you need is a bridgeboard).

I think you are refering to "Numerrical Recipies in C" by Press, Flannery, 
Teukolsky, and Vetterling.  It is a Cambridge U. Press book, and has a 
companion diskette with over 200 subroutines.  There is a FORTRAN version 
also.)  I have this book and IBM format diskette.  The subroutines are just
ascii files, (in a hidden directory) so I found an MS-DOS fanatic, and let 
him show me the wonders of MS-DOS by uploading the the subroutines to a 
mainframe for me.  I then downloaded them and use them as I need.  (They
are plain vanilla C, and need almost no modification for Manx - they probably
should need none but earlier versions of Manx didn't seem to like mixing 
floats and doubles in arbritrary ways.  I havent tried with 5.0a yet.)

Pat Palmer (email: reply or ppalmer@oddjob.uchicago.edu)