Numerical Recipes

Numerical Recipes

Posted Nov 27, 2003 20:30 UTC (Thu) by andrel (guest, #5166)
In reply to: Non-free code in books... by dps
Parent article: OSDL Launches Linux Kernel Awareness Initiative

Not only the license to <it>Numerical Recipes in C</it> is horrible. The code itself stinks. It is ugly, inefficient, and doesn't handle corner cases well. Existing free libraries (e.g. ATLAS, LAPACK, FFTW, GSL) do a much better job.

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