Introduction

The C Math Library (CML) is a collection of routines for numerical computing. The routines have been written from scratch in C, and present a modern Applications Programming Interface (API) for C programmers, allowing wrappers to be written for very high level languages. The source code is distributed under the MIT License.

Routines available in CML

The library covers a wide range of topics in numerical computing. Routines are available for the following areas,

Complex Numbers Special Functions Vectors and Matrices
Quaternions Differential Equations Numerical Differentiation
IEEE Floating-Point Physical Constants Easing Functions

The use of these routines is described in this manual. Each chapter provides detailed definitions of the functions, followed by example programs and references to the articles on which the algorithms are based.

Conventions used in this manual

This manual contains many examples which can be typed at the keyboard. A command entered at the terminal is shown like this:

$ command

The first character on the line is the terminal prompt, and should not be typed. The dollar sign $ is used as the standard prompt in this manual, although some systems may use a different character.

The examples assume the use of the GNU operating system. There may be minor differences in the output on other systems. The commands for setting environment variables use the Bourne shell syntax of the standard GNU shell (bash).