Thanks Julian, I really like the link...

On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Allan Whiteford wrote:
> Quite interesting and probably a useful reference but the lack of
> Simpsons rule is rather disturbing.

Well, actually "the Bible" says that Simpson's rule is "almost useless."  
See [1] for details.

The Bible, in this case, is Numerical Recipes in C. If you don't own a 
copy of this book and do anything more taxing that summing numbers in an 
array, then buy it! You won't regret it.

Also, its available on-line, free of charge! Have a look at 
http://www.nr.com/

The one thing I have against it is the software isn't Free (only free).  
You can use the code in your personal software (provided you own a book),
but you can't use it for writing Open-Source/Free software.

That said, the book is easy to read (dare I say funny, in places) and it
explains the algorithms clearly.

Paul.


[1] = http://www.library.cornell.edu/nr/bookcpdf/c4-1.pdf

> Maybe I've just got the wrong idea about what computers should be used
> for though...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Allan
> 
> Julian Gibson wrote:
> > 
> > All,
> > 
> > Came across the following URL (whilst searching for something
> > completely unrelated) and thought it might be of interest.
> > 
> > http://www.nist.gov/dads/
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Julian
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