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diff --git a/math/ruby-gsl/DESCR b/math/ruby-gsl/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..456b4dc4a69 --- /dev/null +++ b/math/ruby-gsl/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +This is a port of the GNU Scientific Library to the Ruby programming language. + +Things from GSL you can use in ruby-gsl: +- some error handling (ch. 3 in the GSL documentation) +- basic mathematical functions (ch. 4) +- complex numbers (ch. 5) +- functions for polynomial evaluation/roots (ch. 6) +- most "special functions" (ch. 7) +- vectors and matrices (ch. 8) +- permutations (ch. 9) +- combinations (ch. 10) +- BLAS support (ch. 12) +- linear algebra (ch. 13) +- eigensystems (ch. 14) +- numerical integration (ch. 16) +- random number generation (ch. 17) +- quasi-random sequences (ch. 18) +- most random number distributions (ch. 19) +- most statistical functions (ch. 20) +- histograms (ch. 21) +- Monte Carlo integration (ch. 23) +- Simulated Annealing (not reliable) (ch. 24) +- interpolation (ch. 26) +- numerical differentiation (ch. 27) +- Chebyshev approximation (ch. 28) +- series acceleration (ch. 29) +- Discrete Hankel Transforms (ch. 30) +- 1-dimensional root-finding (ch. 31) +- 1-dimensional minimization (ch. 32) +- some functions for least-squares fitting (ch. 35) +- physical constants (ch. 37) |