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- From: thomaso@centerline.com (Thomas Andrews)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,sci.math,sci.math.num-analysis,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: mathematical/statistical routines in Java
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 16:28:24 GMT
- Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
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- Message-ID: <4j6hj8$93h@wcap.centerline.com>
- References: <31514E36.4E5E@baan.nl> <31546CE1.1C18@BlueSky.net>
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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...
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