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Re: Matlab <--> PV-Wave ? [message #9262 is a reply to message #9159]

Fri, 13 June 1997 00:00

Jonathan Rogness
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Registered: April 1997

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Paul van Delst wrote:
>
> Hmm. I *wish* IDL had the extensive numerical toolboxes that Matlab
> does. You can accuse Matlab of a lot of things, but lacking in
> numerical routines ain't one of them. IDL _still_ uses Numerical
> Recipes routines for goodness sake. It is well known that some
> Numerical Recipes routines that come with the book have bugs in them.

Well, I've never seen any library that doesn't have a few bugs lurking
in it. Numerical Recipes _does_ have some bugs in it (see
http://nr.harvard.edu/nr/upgrade/latest-known-bugs.html), but there
seems to be a trend of spurious bug reports associated with it as well.
(See http://nr.harvard.edu/nr/bug-rebutt.html)

> Some people here have switched from IDL to Matlab because of the
> strength of the latter's numerical toolboxes in optimising non-linear
> inverse problems in atmospheric remote sensing

I can't speak from the Matlab point of view, but I'll agree with those
people who aren't satisfied with IDL's non-linear optimising routines.
Too slow for me -- I write my own routines in C and link them to the NAG
library.

Jon

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		Matlab <--> PV-Wave ? By: Franz Dollinger on Wed, 11 June 1997 00:00
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		Re: Matlab <--> PV-Wave ? By: Paul van Delst on Fri, 13 June 1997 00:00

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