SLATEC Common Mathematical Library is a FORTRAN 77 library of over 1,400 general purpose mathematical and statistical routines. The code was developed at

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research laboratories and is therefore

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. "SLATEC" is an

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for the Sandia, Los Alamos,

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Technical Exchange Committee, an organization formed in 1974 to foster the exchange of technical information between the computer centers of three US government laboratories.

Project history and current status

In 1977, the SLATEC Common Mathematical Library (CML) Subcommittee decided to construct a library of FORTRAN subprograms to provide portable, non-proprietary, mathematical software that could be used on a variety of computers, including

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s, at the three sites. The computers centers of the

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, the

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and the

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also participated from 1980–81 onwards. The main repository for SLATEC is

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. The current version is 4.1 (July 1993). Since then, a very small number of minor corrections has been made without incrementing the version number. The

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(GSL), initiated in 1996 and stable since 2001, was started with the explicit aim to provide a more modern replacement for SLATEC.GSL design document https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/design/gsl-design.html#SEC1 as of October 2012.

Each subroutine in SLATEC is tagged as belonging to one of 13 subpackages. Some of these subpackages are also well known as free-standing FORTRAN subprogram libraries, including

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and

QUADPACK QUADPACK is a FORTRAN 77 library for numerical integration (quadrature) of one-dimensional functions. It was included in the SLATEC Common Mathematical Library and is therefore in the public domain. The individual subprograms are also available ...

. The following table shows all subpackages and the number of subroutines they contain:

References

External links

SLATEC source code
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SLATEC information
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