Java Number Cruncher: The Java Programmer's Guide to Numerical Computing

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Prentice Hall PTR, 2003 - Computers - 464 pages
Mak introduces Java programmers to numerical computing. This book contains clear, non-theoretical explanations of practical numerical algorithms, including safely summing numbers, finding roots of equations, interpolation and approximation, numerical integration and differentiation, and matrix operations, including solving sets of simultaneous equations.

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How Wholesome Are the Integers?
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The FloatingPoint Standard
33
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Copyright

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RONALD MAK is a senior scientist at the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science, located at the NASA Ames Research Center in California. He is currently designing Java-based enterprise software for the next Mars rover mission. He has degrees in the mathematical sciences and in computer science from Stanford University. His two previous books were on compiler writing.

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