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About six weeks ago I posted a query to this newsgroup about the relia-bility
of the latest edition of _Numerical Recipes in C_.  After a couple of
weeks with no responses, I addressed my questions to Numerical Recipes
Software at the address given in the book.  I received a reply from
William Vetterling, one of the book's authors, and thought some of you
might be interested in what he had to say.  Excerpts follow:

"...we have periodically updated the books and diskettes to reflect our
latest knowledge of errors. ... we can only correct errors when a
printing cycle completes.  However, the rate of error reports has slowed
to a trickle, and most of them report errors that only exist in previous
versions.  It is also true of bug reports of the numerical bulletin
boards that most are errors that were long-ago discovered and corrected.
...
There will be a new edition of the Recipes in C appearing early in
1993..."

I'm impressed with the prompt and helpful response from Numerical Recipes
Software.

Dave

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