[SciPy-dev] Numerical Recipes (was tagging 0.7rc1 this weekend?)

Sturla Molden sturla at molden.no
Fri Dec 19 22:40:36 EST 2008


> 2008/12/16 Jarrod Millman <millman at berkeley.edu>:


> I am not convinced that their interpretation of copyright law is
> correct, but either way I think ttest_ind and ttest_rel are safe
> (according to *their* rules).  The code makes use of constructs such
> as "where" and broadcasting, that aren't available in C.  The author
> therefore took an idea from NR and reimplemented it in a novel way.

I haven't looked at the actual code in question here. Just beware that
there are Fortran 90 code on the NR CD-ROM and web site. In 1996 the "NR
in Fortran 90" book was published. Their Fortran 90 code does make use of
where constructs, broadcasting and array slices.


Sturla Molden




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