Tricks of the Trade

Volume 3, Issue 1
Winter 1993

This is a column of programming tricks and techniques. You are encouraged to submit ideas to this column.

Topics:

Compiling Complex Functions

Julia Sets
Mandelbrot Set

Functional Equations

Matrix Tips

Producing Tri-diagonal Matrices
Ordering Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
Trace
Special Random Matrices

Indexed Search

Isoclines

Roots of a Function over an Interval

Approximations to Pi

Aural Encoding