Introduction

# Title: Introduction

The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) 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 GNU General Public License.

The RubyGSL is a Ruby bidings for GSL. This provides higher-level interfaces to the GSL functions.

## 1 Requirements

- GSL (1.4 or later recommended)
- ANSI C compiler
- Ruby (1.8 or later recommended)

## 2 Platform

Ruby/GSL is tested on MacOS X (Darwin), Linux (Redhat 9.0), and Cygwin.

## 3 Installation

See here.

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