Raymond Toy wrote:
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> Ray, who thinks there's a reason why there are apparently no other
> competing packages for LAPACK.
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Indeed numerical analysis is a hard subject! By the way, since the OP was
speaking about numerical solutions of ODE, there is a wonderful program in
netlib, called colnew who is able to solve all sorts of boundary problems
for ODEs. I have used it for my work and it really does wonders. But this is
a very complicated program, with a complicated interface. I have tried once
to run it through f2cl, but i think i remember it did not pass entirely
through. Anyways it would be a great addition to maxima if someone more
competent than me was able to make it work here, since the only other place
it is ported to, as far a i know, is scilab, where the implementation is
incomplete (there is no provision for continuations - a fundamental feature
of this program). It can be found at:
http://www.netlib.org/ode/colnew.f
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Michel Talon