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UNINA9910465069703321 |
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Walker Stephen <1948-> |
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Titolo |
Travel resources [[electronic resource] ] : an annotated guide / / Stephen Walker |
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Lanham, Md., : Scarecrow Press, 2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Travel |
Travel - Information services |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Preface; What Travel Resources is and isn't; Selection; About Time; The Entries; Serials, Periodicals; And Series; Library of Congress Subject Headings and their Uses; Subject Categories in Travel Resources; Acknowledgment; Introduction; Are Guidebooks Necessary?; Broadening Travel Opportunities; Finding Information, Especially Online; Types of Information; Reference Works; What to do about Old Information; Country Guidebooks; Sources of Country Information; Day and Weekend Trips; Sources of Travel Information: A List |
Major Travel ReferencesAn Alphabetical List by Subject; Accommodations; Bed and Breakfasts; Home Exchanges; Hostels and Dormitories; Hotels and Motels; Rentals; Resorts; Adventure Travel; Air Travel; Amusement Parks and Fairs; Automobile and Recreational Vehicle Travel; Bicycle Touring; Book Reviews; Budget Travel; Bus Travel; Calendar Information; Camping and Campgrounds; Complaints; Computers and the Internet; Distances; Eating (and Drinking); Ecotourism and Socially Responsible Travel; Emergencies; Government Publications; Health; Health Resorts, Spas, and Healing Centers |
Hitchhiking and Car SharingHomestays; Language; Law; Libraries; Magazines and Newsletters; Mail and Mailing Addresses; Manners and Customs; Maps and Atlases; Money; Motorcycle Touring; Museums, Zoos, etc.; Newspapers; Parks, Safaris, and the Outdoors; Photography; |
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Pronunciation; Publishers; Radio, etc.; Railroad Travel; Recreation, Sports, and Ranch Vacations; Religion; Relocating; Safety and Security; Ships, Boats, Ferries, etc.; Shopping; Special Interests and Hobbies; Arts; Cemeteries; History; Industry; Nature; Off the Beaten Path; People; Study and Travel; Telephoning; Tickets; Time |
ToursTravel Advice; Travel Aids; Travel Writing; Travelers; African-American; Age (Over 55) and Retirees; Business; Disabilities; Families; Gays and Lesbians; Honeymooners; Military; Pets; Singles; Students; Women; Video, DVDs, and Television; Walks and Hikes; Walks (City); Weather; Work; Paid Work; Volunteer Work; Title Index; About the Author |
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Written for the traveler who needs information beyond what is provided in a general guidebook, Travel Resources: An Annotated Guide introduces the reader to comprehensive and specialized travel literature and resources. In this book, author Stephen Walker offers practical and accessible direction for anyone seeking detailed and valuable information on travel, while also instructing readers in ways to find information that may not be included in this guide. |
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UNINA9910254833003321 |
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Autore |
Beebe Nelson H. F. |
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The Mathematical-Function Computation Handbook : Programming Using the MathCW Portable Software Library / / by Nelson H.F. Beebe |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 |
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[1st ed. 2017.] |
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1 online resource (1,115 pages) : illustrations (some color), graphs, tables |
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Computer science—Mathematics |
Applied mathematics |
Engineering mathematics |
Physics |
Cheminformatics |
Numerical analysis |
Mathematics of Computing |
Mathematical and Computational Engineering |
Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation |
Computer Applications in Chemistry |
Numerical Analysis |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- Iterative Solutions and Other Tools -- Polynomial Approximations -- Implementation Issues -- The Floating-Point Environment -- Converting Floating-Point Values to Integers -- Random Numbers -- Roots -- Argument Reduction -- Exponential and Logarithm -- Trigonometric Functions -- Hyperbolic Functions -- Pair-Precision Arithmetic -- Power Function -- Complex Arithmetic Primitives -- Quadratic Equations -- Elementary Functions in Complex Arithmetic -- The Greek Functions: Gamma, Psi, and Zeta -- Error and Probability Functions -- Elliptic Integral Functions -- Bessel Functions -- Testing the Library -- Pair-Precision Elementary Functions -- Accuracy of the Cody/Waite Algorithms -- Improving Upon the Cody/Waite Algorithms -- Floating-Point Output -- Floating-Point Input -- Appendix A: Ada Interface -- Appendix B: C# Interface -- Appendix C: C++ Interface -- Appendix D: Decimal Arithmetic -- Appendix E: Errata in the Cody/Waite Book -- Appendix F: Fortran Interface -- Appendix H: Historical Floating-Point Architectures -- Appendix I: Integer Arithmetic -- Appendix J: Java Interface -- Appendix L: Letter Notation -- Appendix P: Pascal Interface. |
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All major computer programming languages—as well as the disciplines of science and engineering more broadly—require computation of elementary and special functions of mathematics. The MathCW Software Library emphasizes portability, precisely because the code needs to capable of use on a wide variety of platforms. This highly comprehensive handbook provides a substantial advance in such computation, extending the function coverage of major programming languages well beyond their international standards, including full support for decimal floating-point arithmetic. Written with clarity and focusing on the C language, the work pays extensive attention to little-understood aspects of floating-point and integer arithmetic, and to software portability, as well as to important historical architectures. It extends support to a future 256-bit, floating-point format offering 70 decimal digits of precision. Select Topics and Features: references an exceptionally useful, author-maintained MathCW website, containing source code for the book’s software, compiled libraries for numerous systems, pre-built C compilers, and other related materials offers a unique approach to covering mathematical-function computation using decimal arithmetic provides extremely versatile appendices for interfaces to numerous other languages: Ada, C#, C++, Fortran, Java, and Pascal presupposes only basic familiarity with computer programming in a common language, as well as early level algebra supplies a library that readily adapts for existing scripting languages, with minimal effort supports both binary and decimal arithmetic, in up to 10 different floating-point formats covers a significant portion (with highly accurate implementations) of the U.S National Institute of Standards and Technology’s 10-year project to codify mathematical functions This highly practical text/reference is an invaluable tool for advanced undergraduates, recording many lessons of the intermingled history of computer hardware and software, numerical algorithms, and mathematics. In addition, professional numerical analysts and others will find the handbook of real interest and utility because it builds on research by the mathematical software community over the last four |
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