Appendix C

Code

We may say most aptly, that the Analytical Engine weaves
algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves
flowers and leaves.
                                            ―Augusta Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace 1843

C.1 C  · C.2 PARI/GP · C.3 MATLAB · C.4 INTLAB · C.5 Mathematica

Download addresses of free software packages used in the book

• Octave, a high-level language that is mostly compatible with MATLAB. (We used Octave 2.1.50.)
   

• PARI/GP, an interactive programming environment for algebraic number theory. It has a flexible and fast high-precision arithmetic engine. (We used PARI/GP 2.2.8.)
   

• Add-on packages to MATLAB

  • COCA, a collection of MATLAB function files for the computation of linear Chebyshev approximations in the complex plane. (We used COCA 5.)
     
  • INTLAB, a comprehensive Interval Arithmetic package for MATLAB. (We used INTLAB 4.1.2.)
     
  • Schwarz-Christoffel toolbox for MATLAB. (We used version 2.3.)

Links to commercial software packages used in the book

• FEMLAB (We used FEMLAB 2.3/3.0.)
   

• Maple (We used Maple 9.)
   

• Mathematica (We used Mathematica 5.0.)
   

• MATLAB (We used MATLAB 6.5.1.)

This is a web page for the book:

Folkmar Bornemann, Dirk Laurie, Stan Wagon, Jörg Waldvogel: The SIAM 100-Digit Challenge, A Study in High-Accuracy Numerical Computing. Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Philadelphia, 2004.

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