Re: mathematical/statistical routines in Java

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From: Thomas Andrews
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 16:28

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In article <31546CE1.1C18@BlueSky.net>,
Dan Jacobs  <djacobs@BlueSky.net> wrote:
>Jaco van Kooten wrote:
>> 
>> Does anyone know if there exist mathematical and statistical
>> routines in Java? A lot of them are available in Fortran and
>> C (at netlib), but I need them in Java.
>> O.K. I can rewrite them, but that's a rather boring and time
>> consuming job. (May be it is time to write a C2java compiler.)
>> I am also interested in cooperating with someone having the same
>> problem.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Jaco van Kooten
>> Baan Research
>> Ede, the Netherlands
>> 
>> jvkooten@baan.nl
>
>You don't need to rewrite them.  You can use Java native methods
>as an interface to them.

Sure, if you don't want to make your code portable.

I can't imagine using Java to do serious number crunching unless
you wanted to be portably, however...
--
Thomas Andrews           Email: thomaso@centerline.com
CenterLine Software      WWW: http://draco.centerline.com:8080/~thomaso/

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