Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!rex!ames!ncar!gatech!prism!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!boyd
From: boyd@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Numerical Recipes
Message-ID: <1991Feb23.174459.4432@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 91 17:44:59 GMT
References: <1991Feb13.1113.5265@canrem.uucp> <1991Feb22.210921.28469@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Florida State University Computer Science Department
Lines: 21

In article <1991Feb22.210921.28469@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>, vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder) writes:
>In article <1991Feb13.1113.5265@canrem.uucp> "tellabs canada" <tellabs.canada@canrem.uucp> writes:
>>->      - spline algorithms
>>
>>Look for Numerical Recipes in C (mathematicians programming bible),
>>you'll find algorithms for this and a thousand and one other things
>>there
>
>Numerical Recipes (NR) is definitely NOT the "mathematicians programming bible".
>[....lots of good sounding reasons to not get this book/disk....]

Just out of curiosity, is the newer NR in C any better than the original one
(where everything was FORTRAN)?  NR is available on the ST with a source code
disk (in C).  Have they improved their algorithms any in the translation to 
C?  

-- 
             Mickey R. Boyd          |  "God is a comedian playing to an 
          FSU Computer Science       |      audience too afraid to laugh."
        Technical Support Group      |
      email:  boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu  |                  - Voltaire