In article <v01520d01af7570782531@[192.73.4.203]>, Paul Schlosser
<schlosser at ciit.org> writes
>>>Agreed, but what if I don't know before hand what the frequency is?
>snip
>from my friend at NCSU (I think he's giving finals) but I'm fairly
>sure that he uses XPP--it's easy to run simulations in it and plot
>the results.
I hadn't come across xpp, but from the docs it looks good except it only
runs presently on Unix platforms, I think he mentions that a Win95
version is coming out sometime this year. I'm surprised no one has
produced some generic libraries for studying dynamical systems (mind you
neither has such a thing been done for MCA - yet) - perhaps they have
and missed them but I bet they'll either be in FORTRAN or have been
through f2c. I recently translated some FORTRAN BLAS or LINPACK routines
(can't remember which) and was it hard! The tricks these Fortran
programmers use makes reading the code very difficult and I suspect that
the bulk of numerical code that's been written in Fortran in the past is
largely untranslatable by human without a large cost penalty. This would
be a shame since there would appear to be some good stuff out there.
The other thing I've been looking for is an algebraic expression
simplication and/or manipulation library - anybody know of one?
>>-Paul
Herbert
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