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From: fritz@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Roots of polynomials
Message-ID: <1990Dec8.182611.1221@urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 8 Dec 90 17:26:11 GMT
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In article <1990Dec7.140547.2976@watserv1.waterloo.edu>, dmurdoch@watserv1.waterloo.edu (D.J. Murdoch - Statistics) writes:
> In article <1990Dec6.192941.1215@urz.unibas.ch> fritz@urz.unibas.ch writes:
>>
>>For a lot of numerical problems I can STRONGLY recommend the book
>>
>>  NUMERICAL RECIPES IN PASCAL -- The Art of Scientific Computing
>>
>>written by four authors (Press, Flannery et.al.) and published by
>>Cambridge University Press (UK). 
> 
> I have the original Numerical Recipes, which has the code in Fortran with
> fairly literal Pascal translations in an appendix.  Have you (or anyone else)
> looked at both versions enough to be able to recommend for or against buying
> the pure Pascal version?
> 
> Duncan Murdoch

To be honest: no !

I also know only the FORTRAN version with the Pascal appendix. I've
read in a bookstore that a `Pascal-only' edition has appeared now. I 
haven't seen it yet, because -- as I was told in the bookstore -- Cambridge
is rather slow in deliveries.

The C-version of the book is about the same as the FORTRAN-version.
So I guess the Pascal-version won't differ to much either.


	Oliver Fritz