GSL(3)

💖 NAME 💖

gsl — the GNU Scientific Library. that's the whole vibe, bestie ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <gsl/...>

like. you just include it. that's the whole move 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so, the GNU Scientific Library — GSL to the people who love her — is a whole collection of routines for numerical computing. and the lore?? every single routine was written from scratch by the GSL team, in C, no borrowed homework, no hand-me-downs. iconic behaviour, honestly. 🫶

and it serves a modern Applications Programming Interface (API) for C programmers — which lowkey means other people can come along and write wrappers for very high level languages. she's generous like that. she shares. 👑

this manual page is part of the Library Functions Manual, btw, in case you were wondering where you wandered into. you're in the right place, don't worry 🎀

🍓 the areas she covers (all 31 of them, no skips, no cuts)

the library is giving range. it covers:

• Complex Numbers 💖
• Roots of Polynomials 🌸
• Special Functions ✨
• Vectors and Matrices 🦋
• Permutations ⭐
• Combinations 🍓
• Sorting 🎀
• BLAS Support 💙
• Linear Algebra 🔥
• Eigensystems 👑
• Fast Fourier Transforms 🌈
• Quadrature 💅
• Random Numbers 🎲
• Quasi-Random Sequences ✨
• Random Distributions 🍀
• Statistics 📊
• Histograms 💜
• N-Tuples 🧚
• Monte Carlo Integration 🎰
• Simulated Annealing 🌡️
• Differential Equations 🌊
• Interpolation 🪄
• Numerical Differentiation 📐
• Chebyshev Approximations ⭐
• Series Acceleration 🚀
• Discrete Hankel Transforms 🌀
• Root-Finding 🔍
• Minimization 📉
• Least-Squares Fitting 📈
• Physical Constants 🌍
• IEEE Floating-Point 💾

periodt. that's the roster. 💅

🧚 want the full tea?

for more information, bestie, please consult the GSL Reference Manual — she lives as an info file. you can read her online using the shell command:

info gsl-ref

(that works if the library is installed, so check first, don't come for me 🙈)

🫶 bug report time!! please report any bugs to bug-gsl@gnu.org. the team literally wants to know, no gatekeeping, fr fr.

signed off with so much love by the GSL Team, repping the GNU Scientific Library 🌈💖 — that's the whole credit line, that's the whole era. go compute something cute, bestie ✨👑