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- These days, computer
languages do look very similar but we will try to point out a few useful similarities!
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- Dynamic linking is
part of the plan for a future release
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- The ability to properly handle floating point
exceptions is dependent upon the capabilities of the hardware and
operating system, as well as the interests of the person installing
RLaB .
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- Australian
Macquarie dictionary, ISBN: 0-949757-23-3.
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- And also one less data type that you need to learn
about.
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- You've been
reading Kahaner, Moler, and Nash ``Numerical Methods and Software''
for example.
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- Machine-epsilon is the smallest number
that your computer can distinguish. A common way to determine
machine-epsilon is to divide a variable (eps)
by two until 1.0 + eps == 1.0.
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- Mine in this case is Golub and VanLoan, ``Matrix
Computations''.
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- Although the numbers are not identically zero,
they are on the order of machine precision, and can be considered
to be zero. Some programs use fixed-point precision when printing.
Although this makes their output look more accurate, it is
not.
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- Note we said similar, not identical.
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- We will
use the term environment and scope interchangeably.
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- Not necessarily an efficient way to compute the
factorial.
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- For an excellent discussion of the QR decomposition
please refer to ``Matrix Computations'' Golub and Van Loan.
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- See ``Matrix Computations'' by
Golub and VanLoan.
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- RLaB lists are similar to AWK associative
arrays.
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- If one
is necessary.
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- The exception to this statement is the use of
static variables, which can obscure built-in functions - see the
Section
.