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 Ruby bindings 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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