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Numerical Recipes Source Code CD-ROM 3rd Edition: The Art of Scientific Computing | 
 enlarge | Authors: William H. Press, Te Saul A., William T. Vetterling, Brian P. Flannery
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Book
List Price: $80.00
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Sales Rank: 311427
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: 3
Pages: 1235
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 0.6 x 7.6
ISBN: 0521706858
Dewey Decimal Number: 518.0285
EAN: 9780521706858
Publication Date: September 10, 2007
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Product Description
The Numerical Recipes Third Edition Code CDROM contains the complete source code in C++ for Numerical Recipes Third Edition, with many completely new routines, plus source code from Numerical Recipes Second Edition in C, Fortran 77, and Fortran 90 and Numerical Recipes First Edition in Pascal and BASIC, and more. Compatible with all computers and operating systems, the CDROM includes a Personal Single-User License that allows an individual to use the copyrighted code on any number of computers (no more than one at a time). More general licenses are available, as well as more information about the CDROM and the book -- including a fully electronic online version. Please visit www.nr.com or www.cambridge.org/us/numericalrecipes for more details. More information concerning licenses is available at: www.nr.com/licenses The Readers' Forum, for bug reports and other information on using Numerical Recipes: http://www.nr.com/forum/
Book Description
This CDROM contains the complete source code in C++ for Numerical Recipes Third Edition, plus source code from earlier editions in C, Fortran 77, Fortran 90, Pascal, and BASIC. Compatible with all computers and operating systems, the CDROM includes a Personal Single-User License.
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DISAPPOINTED WITH SEQUENTIAL CODE October 4, 2007
Peter J. Stan (Los Angeles, CA)
14 out of 18 found this review helpful
My rating reflects dissatisfaction with the concept of v3.0, rather than with how it's been implemented. Given past experience, I'm sure the implementation is just fine.
I've been very happily using the parallel version of the v2.10 NR algorithms in Fortran 9x for the past year or more. My work needs the extra oomph of multiple processors, and the algorithms are all that they're supposed to be. You can imagine my astonishment to discover that v3.0 is sequential C++ code. The authors made a big deal about parallel Fortran being the future of scientific computing in the preface of their Second Edition. Now all it merits is a bowdlerization of Shakespeare in a footnote on p. xi. Indeed, "what a falling off was there!"
NR/v3.0 cuts off at least a portion of its high-end users, and that ain't progress. Had I realized this was going to happen, I would never have upgraded. As it is, I'm stuck with the Fortran 90 legacy portion of the CD. This might not be so bad if this code were supported, but it's not.
I strongly urge the authors to move to a parallel version of their new code and to support the Fortran code at least in the interim. The electronic text could provide a medium for so doing.
My displeasure obviously extends to the text, the production of which is superb, by the way.
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