Acknowledgment

This electronic text originated with a textbook published in 1993 entitled:

Introduction to Scientific Computing

Teck-Kah Lim, Michel Vallières and Richard D. Haracz

McGraw-Hill, Inc., College Custom Series

I am indebted to Profs. Lim and Haracz for their collaboration in writing this textbook, which is now out-of-print.

The material has been presented numerous times in the course—CS170, Computer Programming—at Drexel University. I acknowledge much feedback from the students.

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