Comment Re:Field dependent requirement (Score 1) 1086
I've gone all the way up to calculus 3 (vectors, multi-dimensional functions, and doing differentials and integrals therein) and I've yet to see calculus applied by any programming. I am curious how one actually implements it though, in what (limited) programming I've done, I haven't seen any clear way to calculate say an integral using something like c++ or c#.
Is it typically library/api driven and you just feed an equation to those functions? Or do most programmers hardcode them?
I'd like to see some code examples. I'd probably never have a use for it, but I am curious.
I haven't tried it, but it appears that the GNU Scientific Library contains functions for linear algebra, numerical differentiation, differential equations etc. You can download it here, and it's also in the standard Debian repositories (and I suspect also included with most other Linux distros).