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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: erf() function in VMS FORTRAN
Summary: Numerical Recipes!
Message-ID: <1035@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 29 May 88 05:15:56 GMT
References: <12789@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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In article <12789@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, heather@MATH.UCLA.EDU writes:
[Asking about the ERF() function.]

I have replied by E-mail, but I thought it might be worth following-up
anyway.
    An obvious place to start looking is CALGO.  (The collected algorithms
    from the ACM.)  The Computer Journal (the journal of the BCS) has an
    algorithms series.  JCAM [J. Comp & Appl Math] has some good stuff.
    Applied Statistics has a series of Fortran-coded algorithms.
In this particular place, the easiest place to look is
	Numerical Recipes,
	Press, Flannery, Teukolsky, & Vettering,
	Cambridge University Press, 1986
	ISBN 0-521-30811-9
The answer is found in section 6.2, pp 163-164.

It would be interesting to know what the relative quality of the VS FORTRAN
version and the Numerical Recipes version is.

Perhaps we could have "readily available Fortran source code" as a topic?
I've seen at least two other journals which regularly published Fortran code.