C matrix routines

Sat May 18 05:29:38 AEST 1991

In article <6422 at uafhp.uark.edu>, wgj at engr09.uark.edu (William Johnston) writes:
> 
> 
> I have an urgent need for information reguarding matrix manipulation routines in C.
> My primary interest is in freeware and shareware. 

Check out the book 'Numerical Recipes in C: The art of Scientific Computing"
published by Cambridge University Press.  A diskette which
contains the code of the examples given in the book is available. 

Here is the readme from the floppy:

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