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Re: Bessel Functions and Numerical Recipes
- Subject: Re: Bessel Functions and Numerical Recipes
- From: Jean Koclas <jean(at)koclas.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 23:18:48 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
- Organization: Sympatico
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>
> Another question:
>
> Has anyone converted a substantial portion of
> Numerical Recipes [e.g., Fortran], to IDL? Are there public libraries for
> this sort of thing? Numerical Recipes algorithms seem much more
> stable/reliable than those in IDL and I have the complete Fortran code for
> most Numerical Recipes but find it tedious to manually convert between
> languages each time I want a program.
>
Numerical Recipes in C have been ported to IDL and are part of it. The
routines are documented as such in the IDL Reference Guide.
However, take a look at http://math.jpl.nasa.gov/nr.html and you might
wonder if it is a good idea to use these routines...
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Jean Koclas
jean--at--koclas--dot--com