The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a collection of routines for numerical analysis, written in C. The library provides a wide range of mathematical routines such as random number generators, special functions and least-squares fitting. There are over 1000 functions in total with an extensive test suite.

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Sample Session on Helix

Sample programs

gsl-randist

and

gsl-histogram

are provided, each with a man page.

A perl interface is also available, accessed in a perl script by entering

Documentation

http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Math-GSL/lib/Math/GSL.pm