Gaussian RNG?, numerics in general...



On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 14:33, David Holmgren wrote:
> Hi,  FWIW, there is a translation of some of the Numerical Recipes code into
> Lisp, available at the CMU website (I can send a link if anyone wants).  It
> covers the special functions, random number generators, FFT-related stuff,
> and a few odds and ends out of interpolation.  BTW, this is not an official
> translation!  Anyway, it may be of some help.

Wow. Is that a legal port of Numerical Recipes code? I don't see how it
can be. Numerical Recipes is commercial code. It is not freely
distributable at all. Really, it is the worst of all possible worlds:
commercial code that is generally inferior to free alternatives.

There is no way we could use anything from Numerical Recipes, even if we
wanted to.

--Jim