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            Netlib is a system for distribution of mathematical software
            by  electronic  mail.  To get information about netlib, mail
            the following one-line message to netlib@mcs.anl.gov

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            For background about netlib, see Jack J. Dongarra  and  Eric
            Grosse,  ``Distribution  of  Mathematical Software Via Elec-
            tronic Mail,'' _C_A_C_M (1987) Vol. 30, pp. 403-407.

            The netlib library includes the following  software  collec-
            tions (for details on each, see the index message).

















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                    a - approximation algorithms  (almost empty, but soon to grow)
                    alliant - set of programs collected from Alliant users
                    apollo - set of programs collected from Apollo users
                    benchmark - various benchmark programs and a summary of timings
                    bihar - Bjorstad's biharmonic solver
                    bmp - Brent's multiple precision package
                    cheney-kincaid - programs from the text Numerical Mathematics and Computing.
                    conformal - Schwarz-Christoffel codes by Trefethen; Bjorstad+Grosse
                    core - machine constants, blas
                    domino - communication and scheduling of multiple tasks; Univ. Maryland
                    eispack - matrix eigenvalues and vectors
                    elefunt - Cody and Waite's tests for elementary functions
                    errata - corrections to numerical books
                    fishpack - separable elliptic PDEs; Swarztrauber and Sweet
                    fitpack - Cline's splines under tension
                    fftpack - Swarztrauber's Fourier transforms
                    fmm - software from the book by Forsythe, Malcolm, and Moler
                    fn - Fullerton's special functions
                    gcv - Generalized Cross Validation
                    go - ``golden oldies,''  gaussq, zeroin, lowess, ...
                    graphics - ray-tracing
                    harwell - MA28 sparse linear system




























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                    hompack - nonlinear equations by homotopy method
                    itpack - iterative linear system solution by Young and Kincaid
                    lanczos - Cullum and Willoughby's Lanczos programs
                    laso - Scott's Lanczos program for eigenvalues of sparse matrices
                    linpack - gaussian elimination, QR, SVD  by Dongarra, Bunch, Moler, Stewart
                    lp - linear programming
                    machines - short descriptions of various computers
                    microscope - Alfeld and Harris' system for discontinuity checking
                    minpack - nonlinear equations and least squares by More, Garbow, Hillstrom
                    misc - everything else
                    na-digest - archive of mailings to NA distribution list
                    napack - numerical algebra programs
                    ode - ordinary differential equations
                    odepack - ordinary differential equations from Hindmarsh
                    paranoia - Kahan's floating point test
                    pchip - hermite cubics  Fritsch+Carlson
                    pltmg - Bank's multigrid code;  too large for ordinary mail
                    polyhedra - Hume's database of geometric solids
                    port - the public subset of PORT library
                    pppack - subroutines from de Boor's Practical Guide to Splines
                    quadpack - univariate quadrature by Piessens, de Donker, Kahaner
                    siam - typesetting macros for SIAM journal format
                    slatec - machine constants and error handling package from the Slatec library
                    sparse - a set of c codes for sparse systems of equations
                    sparspak - George + Liu, sparse linear algebra core
                    specfun - transportable special functions
                    toeplitz - linear systems in Toeplitz or circulant form by Garbow
                    toms - Collected Algorithms of the ACM
                    y12m - sparse linear system  (Aarhus)


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