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This file documents the GNU Scientific Library.

Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 The GSL Team.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''.

GSL
***

This file documents the GNU Scientific Library, a collection of numerical routines for scientific computing.  The documentation corresponds to version VERSION.

More information about GSL can be found at the project homepage, http://sources.redhat.com/gsl/.

Introduction
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Using the library
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Error Handling
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Mathematical Functions
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Complex Numbers
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Roots of Polynomials
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Special Functions
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Vectors and Matrices
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Permutations
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Sorting
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BLAS Support
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Linear Algebra
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Eigensystems
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Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs)
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Numerical Integration
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Random Number Generation
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Quasi-Random Sequences
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Random Number Distributions
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Statistics
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Histograms
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N-tuples
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Monte Carlo Integration
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Simulated Annealing
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Ordinary Differential Equations
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Interpolation
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Numerical Differentiation
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Chebyshev Approximations
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Series Acceleration
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Discrete Hankel Transforms
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One dimensional Root-Finding
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One dimensional Minimization
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Multidimensional Root-Finding
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Multidimensional Minimization
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Least-Squares Fitting
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Nonlinear Least-Squares Fitting
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Physical Constants
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IEEE floating-point arithmetic
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Debugging Numerical Programs
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Contributors to GSL
*******************

(See the AUTHORS file in the distribution for up-to-date information.)

Mark Galassi
     Conceived GSL (with James Theiler) and wrote the design document.  Wrote the simulated annealing package and the relevant chapter in the manual.

James Theiler
     Conceived GSL (with Mark Galassi).  Wrote the random number generators and the relevant chapter in this manual.

Jim Davies
     Wrote the statistical routines and the relevant chapter in this manual.

Brian Gough
     FFTs, numerical integration, random number generators and distributions, root finding, minimization and fitting, polynomial solvers, complex numbers, physical constants, permutations, vector and matrix functions, histograms, statistics, ieee-utils, revised CBLAS Level 2 & 3, matrix decompositions and eigensystems.

Reid Priedhorsky
     Wrote and documented the initial version of the root finding routines while at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mathematical Modeling and Analysis Group.

Gerard Jungman
     Series acceleration, ODEs, BLAS, Linear Algebra, Eigensystems, Hankel Transforms.

Mike Booth
     Wrote the Monte Carlo library.

Jorma Olavi Tähtinen
     Wrote the initial complex arithmetic functions.

Thomas Walter
     Wrote the initial heapsort routines and cholesky decomposition.

Fabrice Rossi
     Multidimensional minimization.

Autoconf Macros
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The following autoconf test will check for extern inline,

     dnl Check for "extern inline", using a modified version
     dnl of the test for AC_C_INLINE from acspecific.mt
     dnl
     AC_CACHE_CHECK([for extern inline], ac_cv_c_extern_inline,
     [ac_cv_c_extern_inline=no
     AC_TRY_COMPILE([extern $ac_cv_c_inline double foo(double x);
     extern $ac_cv_c_inline double foo(double x) { return x+1.0; };
     double foo (double x) { return x + 1.0; };],
     [  foo(1.0)  ],
     [ac_cv_c_extern_inline="yes"])
     ])

     if test "$ac_cv_c_extern_inline" != no ; then
       AC_DEFINE(HAVE_INLINE,1)
       AC_SUBST(HAVE_INLINE)
     fi

GSL CBLAS Library
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GNU General Public License
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GNU Free Documentation License
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