[fpc-pascal]Math/Algebra Unit for FreePascal

Alan Mead cubrewer at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 21 08:16:53 CEST 2004


--- Michael.VanCanneyt at Wisa.be wrote:
> I have the 'Numerical Recipes in Pascal' CD-ROM, but I
> suspect
> there might be copyright issues involved when distributing these
> algorithms
> :/

A version of the NR code is freely available on the net as a zip file
complete with the code and the examples.  The code matches the book
copyrighted 1986/1989, I don't know if there is a later edition.. I
think the readme in the zip file calls this an older version released
as shareware....

The code is not particulary free but it seems a bit hazy.  The
colection is not free.  But, for example, I'm working on a problem
using sigular value decomposition right now and the SVDCMP.PAS
routine in NR is apparently a translation of free-er EISPACK
routines.

I would be cautious of GPL/LGPL units that that use NR code.  It's
not clear that that's legal... 

-Alan




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