{"id":1576,"date":"2009-08-07T08:15:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T07:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2009-08-07T08:15:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T07:15:45","slug":"calling-the-nag-numerical-algorithms-group-c-library-from-octave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1576","title":{"rendered":"Calling the NAG (Numerical Algorithms Group) C library from Octave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) produce some of the best mathematical libraries money can buy (and no&#8230;I don&#8217;t work for them &#8211; I&#8217;m just a very happy customer).\u00a0 Although they are written in C and Fortran it is possible to use them in almost any programming environment you care to mention &#8211; I&#8217;ve personally used them with both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=830\">Python<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=726\">Visual Basic<\/a> for example as well as making extensive use of their <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.nag.co.uk\/numeric\/MB\/start.asp\">toolbox for MATLAB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, Anna Kwiczala of NAG has written an article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nag.co.uk\/doc\/TechRep\/html\/Tr4_09\/Tr4_09.asp\">demonstrating how to use them in the free, open source MATLAB-like package, Octave<\/a>.\u00a0 Head over there to check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know if you are a user of the NAG library as I&#8217;d quite like to swap notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) produce some of the best mathematical libraries money can buy (and no&#8230;I don&#8217;t work for them &#8211; I&#8217;m just a very happy customer).\u00a0 Although they are written in C and Fortran it is possible to use them in almost any programming environment you care to mention &#8211; I&#8217;ve personally used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math-software","category-nag-library"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-pq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}