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Hi, having taken a look at a few textbooks that discuss numerical methods and C programming, I was gladly surprised when browsing through "programming in C with numerical methods for engineers" by Rojiani. I understand of course it's important that one need to have a solid background in numerical methods prior to try implementing them on a computer.

I would like to know if someone here has been using this book and if possible point out strengths and weaknesses of this textbook.

Thanks a lot...

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Please Refer NUMERICAL RECIPES in C.

it is available online(FREE) here... http://www.fizyka.umk.pl/nrbook/bookcpdf.html

Good Luck!!!

CVS-2600Hertz
Yes I know about this famous book but I also heard that there are many mistakes also. I like to explore many books first before adapting one. Thanks for the link.
yCalleecharan
Some programmers mistakenly assume that NR contains mistakes.
Hans Passant
@Hans: Other programmers know for a fact that NR is chock full of misinformation and the code quality is dire. Don't touch NR with a barge pole...
Jon Harrop
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Well, sometimes it takes some time for a bug to rear its ugly head :-)

Extra, Extra - Read All About It: Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.html

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