Forth Scientific Library

The Forth Scientific Library (FSL) is a compendium of portable, reviewed ForthLanguage source to support many mathematical and scientific abstractions and algorithms. It includes Forth implementations of the ACM libraries (BasicLinearAlgebraSubprograms, LinearAlgebraPackage, etc.) and:

• ComplexNumbers syntax and operations
• Matrix syntax and operations
• Arbitrary precision numbers (BigNum)
• Function integration and interpolation
• Infix formula syntax (InfixNotation)
• Strong PseudoRandomNumberGenerators
• FastFourierTransforms
• SortingAlgorithms (ShellSort, QuickSort)
• Date conversion

Resources

• http://www.taygeta.com/fsl/sciforth.html
• http://www.taygeta.com/fsl/scilib.html
• Use ftp://ftp.taygeta.com/pub/Forth/Scientific/ to obtain the FSL sources via FTP.
• http://www.forth.org/taygeta.html contains an (old) index to the FSL (search for "Scientific").
• Scientific Forth: A modern language for scientific computing, by Julian V. Noble. ISBN 0-9632775-0-2

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