Numerical Recipes Routines and Examples in BASIC (First Edition) [Paperback]

Julien C. Sprott (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0521406897 | ISBN-13: 978-0521406895 | Publication Date: April 26, 1991

This book contains the routines and demonstration programs from the first edition of the highly acclaimed reference book, Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing. It includes computer code and code captions from the book and example book and the commentary from the example book. The author employs a contemporary version of BASIC, Microsoft QuickBasic 4.5, which roughly follows the structure of FORTRAN; in fact, the recipes found in this book are easily adapted for other modern forms of BASIC. This book is recommended for use with one of the main Numerical Recipes books, such as Numerical Recipes in Fortran 77 [link to 43064X]. The programs contained in this book are also available as machine-readable code on the Numerical Recipes Code CD-ROM with Windows/Macintosh Single Screen License [link to 576083].

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"I recommend this valuable book without reservation." A.D. Booth, Computing Reviews

"...a welcome and valuable adjunct to both new practitioners and died-in-the-wool FORTRAN practitioners of scientific computing." S. Townsend, Physics in Canada

Book Description

Here the 350 routines and programs originally published in Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing are given in BASIC. The accompanying Numerical Recipes Example Book contains programs which demonstrate the subroutines. This book brings routines and programs together, along with computer code and code captions from both this and the Example book.

Product Details

• Paperback: 420 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (April 26, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521406897
• ISBN-13: 978-0521406895
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,653,773 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Routines and more routines, July 4, 2001

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Carlos Eduardo Foltran (Campinas, SP Brazil) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Numerical Recipes Routines and Examples in BASIC (First Edition) (Paperback)

If you ever had to program a complicated numerical algorithm, such as SVD decomposition, Bessel functions, eigensystems or Fourier transform, you will know how useful this book is. All those problems, and many others, are presented and the full BASIC code of a routine, which solves it, is given. This book is an issue for "Numerical recipes in FORTRAN", that brings the codes in FORTRAN 77 and also the mathematical theory behind the routines. There are versions of this issue also for Pascal and C++. If you need any routine, you just have to "cut and paste" it from the book into your program. Don't left to look "Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN", which is the mother of the whole collection.

3.0 out of 5 stars Useful routines for computation, February 23, 2006

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Davide alessandro Lodi - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Numerical Recipes Routines and Examples in BASIC (First Edition) (Paperback)

Good book: a collection of useful routines. somehow lacking when referring to formulas in the text (formulas can be found in the Fortran77 edition available eventually on-line).
Maybe some more details could be added when explaining routines critical steps and/or alternative usage of main routines (i.e.: ordering routines for percentile calculations).