On Sunday 24 August 2003 12:42 pm, zentara wrote:

Hi,

If you are into C programming and/or numerical analysis you might find this book useful in your e-library.

http://www.library.cornell.edu/nr/bookcpdf.html

There are over 100 small pdf's to download(which is a real hassle), so I made a simple wget script to do the download unattended. It's at http://zentara.net/z-numerical-c-grabber

Now I know it can be improved by a loop, but it was just real easy to do it in the current clunky method....just cut'n'paste a lynx dump and prepend each line with wget. :-)

Interesting that this should be available for free (note that you may download ONE copy). I've used this book and the accompanying software/examples for years and consider it one of the most valuable books in my library. The book alone is nearly 1000 pages and it's hard for me to imagine downloading and printing the whole thing, especially with a modem. If you just needed a routine from one chapter, it seems as though it might be worth downloading just that part but I warn the potential user that the one should especially download the Appendicies and Chapter 1. I would strongly suggest that, while it might be nice to poke around on-line with the book, the potential user might really benefit from buying the whole package if they are considering doing anything with numerical analysis. I might also add that the book AND examples really should be picked up together, and that one need not be a real C expert to make these routines work. The book/routines are really bulletproof. Just my .02 -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing"