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- NUMERICAL RECIPES PASCAL SHAREWARE DISKETTE
-
- The entire contents of this diskette are
- Copyright (C) 1986 by Numerical Recipes Software.
-
- HERE ARE ANSWERS TO YOUR IMMEDIATE QUESTIONS:
-
- ** What is this diskette? ** This NUMERICAL RECIPES PASCAL SHAREWARE
- DISKETTE contains Pascal procedures originally published as the Pascal
- Appendix to the FORTRAN book NUMERICAL RECIPES: THE ART OF SCIENTIFIC
- COMPUTING (Cambridge University Press, 1986), and test driver programs
- originally published as the NUMERICAL RECIPES EXAMPLE BOOK (PASCAL)
- (Cambridge University Press, 1986).
-
- ** What kinds of procedures are these Numerical Recipes? ** They are
- practically a complete library for scientific computation. Numbering
- more than 200, their scope includes integration, linear algebra,
- differential equations, Fourier methods, data analysis, statistics,
- lots of special functions, random numbers, sorting, root finding,
- optimization, and much more.
-
- ** Do I really get this whole library for FREE? ** Yes, providing that
- you follow these simple rules: (1) You must read and accept the
- disclaimer of warranty at the end of this document. (2) You must not
- expect any user support from Numerical Recipes Software, Cambridge
- University Press, or the authors of the Numerical Recipes books. (3)
- You must not copy or redistribute any of the programs or procedures
- for commercial purposes. You CAN make copies of the programs for your
- friends and colleagues, providing that you include this file
- (especially its copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty) with any
- copy that you make.
-
- ** What's the catch, then? ** None at all. Many thousands of
- satisfied users paid more than $20 to purchase exactly the programs on
- this disk, which were sold by Cambridge University Press (C.U.P.)
- between 1986 and 1989. C.U.P. now sells a revised version of the
- Numerical Recipes program library, whose Pascal style is much
- improved, but whose basic algorithmic workings are identical to this
- disk. Rather than let the older version go to waste, its authors
- decided to make it available to the shareware community of users.
-
- ** How can I figure out what the procedures do? ** One way is to read
- the brief descriptions of all the programs in the file NRINFO.DOC. A
- better way is to look at the book Numerical Recipes: The Art of
- Scientific Computing in any one of its three editions (FORTRAN,
- Pascal, or C). If you don't want to buy this book from Cambridge
- University Press (see the file NRINFO.DOC), you can find it in
- libraries. Or, take a pencil and a small piece of paper into a
- bookstore that carries the book and take notes on which programs you
- might find interesting.
-
- ** How do I figure out how to use the procedures? ** Again, you have
- several options. All the procedures (named *.PAS) come with
- demonstration programs (named *.DEM). These demonstration programs
- are included on this shareware diskette. (When sold, they are sold as
- a separate diskette.) Usually you can figure out how to use a
- procedure by figuring out its .DEM program. Another way is to look at
- the Numerical Recipes book in a library or bookstore.
-
- ** Aren't you just trying to get me to buy the book? ** Think of it
- this way: Most shareware comes with the requirement that if you use it
- more than casually, you are required to become a registered user and
- pay a fee. We are not requiring any fee at all. We think that you
- will be able to use MOST of the procedures on this diskette without
- the Numerical Recipes book. If you become a more-than-casual user, or
- if you look at the book in a bookstore, we are betting that you will
- WANT to buy it, and perhaps then want to purchase the revised and
- improved versions of the programs, also. But it is completely up to
- you.
-
- ** OK, what if I do want to get the book? ** Call Cambridge University
- Press at their toll-free number, 800-872-7423. (In New York call
- 800-227-0247 or 914-937-9600.) Ask for "Numerical Recipes in Pascal",
- ISBN number 0-521-37516-9. We think you'll like it. (Over 100,000
- copies of the book are in print, in FORTRAN, Pascal, and C.)
-
- ** What are the files on this diskette? ** All the procedures, in
- Pascal source code, are in the ZIP file NRPAS13.ZIP. You use
- PKUNZIP.EXE to decompress them. (For info just execute PKUNZIP with
- no command line arguments.) All the demonstration programs are
- similarly in NRPEX10.ZIP (PEX means Pascal EXamples). Some data files
- used by the procedures and demonstrations programs are in NRPDATA.ZIP.
- The files NRPAS13.LST and NRPEX10.LST each list the names of the files
- in their corresponding ZIP file. The short file MODFILE.PAS is used
- by many of the procedures to customize to your particular variety of
- Pascal compiler; feel free to modify it, if you need to. The file
- NRINFO.DOC tells about the book Numerical Recipes in Pascal and gives
- a brief description of all the procedures. The file you are now
- reading is NRREADME.DOC.
-
- Good luck, and happy number-crunching!
-
- DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
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- THE PROGRAMS AND PROCEDURES ON THIS DISKETTE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS"
- WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR
- IMPLIED, THAT THE PROGRAMS AND PROCEDURES ARE FREE OF ERROR, OR ARE
- CONSISTENT WITH ANY PARTICULAR STANDARD OF MERCHANTABILITY, OR THAT
- THEY WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS FOR ANY PARTICULAR APPLICATION. THEY
- SHOULD NOT BE RELIED ON FOR SOLVING A PROBLEM WHOSE INCORRECT SOLUTION
- COULD RESULT IN INJURY TO A PERSON OR LOSS OF PROPERTY. IF YOU DO USE
- THE PROGRAMS OR PROCEDURES IN SUCH A MANNER, IT IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
- THE AUTHORS AND PUBLISHER DISCLAIM ALL LIABILITY FOR DIRECT,
- INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RESULTING FROM YOUR USE OF THE
- PROGRAMS OR PROCEDURES ON THIS DISKETTE. ANY LIABILITY OF THE PERSON
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