Numerical Recipes in BASIC - Routines and Examples - Companion Manual to Numerical Recipes - The Art of Scientific Computing

Professor Sprott's efforts, contained in this book, address the needs of the scientific programmer
in BASIC. This book is not intended to stand by itself. It is not a full edition of Numerical
Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing. In the full editions (FORTRAN, C, or Pascal) the
algorithms and methods of scientific computation are developed in considerable detail, starting
with basic mathematical analysis and working through to actual implementation in the form of
computer code. This book is intended to supplement anyone of the full editions with, in effect,
a "simultaneous translation" of computer code into the preferred language of the BASIC user. It
is a matter of individual taste which full edition the user should choose. BASIC is syntactically
closer to FORTRAN than to the other languages, but this is perhaps only because that language,
like BASIC, has relatively ancient roots in the computer world. C seems to us to be the language
of most rapid growth within the scientific community.
The text of this book is largely drawn from the Numerical Recipes Example Book. There is thus no need for a separate Example Book in BASIC