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                            Normalising constant, 139             Plauger, P. J., 12
                            Notation, 17                          Plot or graph of function, 151
                            NOVA, 5, 46, 69, 79, 90, 91, 93, 100, 108, 109,  Polak, E., 198, 199
                               117, 122, 123, 125, 127, 141, 153, 156, 164,  Polak-Ribiere formula, 199
                               199, 206, 208, 220, 225,226, 229, 230,232,  Polynomial roots, 143, 145
                               241,250                            Positive definite iteration matrix, 192
                            Null vector, 20                       Positive definite matrix, 22, 120, 188, 197, 211,
                            Numerical Algorithms Group, 10           235, 241, 243
                            Numerical approximation of derivatives, 2 17,  Positive definite symmetric matrix, 83
                               218, 223, 228                        inverse of, 24
                            Numerical differentiation, 218        Powell. M. J. D., 185, 199
                                                                  Power method for dominant matrix
                            Objective function, 205, 207             eigensolution, 102
                            Oliver, F. R., 144, 207               Precision,
                            One-dimensional problems, 148           double, 9, 14
                            O’Neill, R., 171, 178                   extended, 9, 14
                            One-sided transformation, 136           machine, 5, 46, 70
                            Ones matrix, 254                      Price, K., 90
                            Operations,                           Principal axes of a cube, 125
                              arithmetic, 5                       Principal components, 41, 46
                            Optimisation, 142                     Principal moments of inertia, 125
                              constrained, 3                      Product of triangular matrices, 74
                            Ordering of eigenvalues, 127, 134     Program,
                            Ordinary differential equations, 20     choice, 14
                            Orthogonal vectors, 25, 32              coding, 14
                            Orthogonalisation,                      compactness, 12
                             by plane rotations, 32                 maintenance, 14
                             of matrix rows, 49, 54                 readability, 12
                            Orthogonality,                          reliability, 14
                             of eigenvectors of real symmetric matrix, 119  testing, 14
                             of search directions, 198            Programming,
                             of vectors, 26                         mathematical, 13
                            Osborne, M. R., 85, 142, 186, 226       structured, 12
                                                                  Programming language, 11, 15
                                                                  Programs,
                            Paige, C. C., 234                       manufacturers’, 9
                            Parabolic interpolation, 151            sources of, 9
                            Parabolic inverse interpolation, 152, 199, 210  Pseudo-random numbers, 147, 166, 240
                             formulae, 153
                            Parameters, 142
                            Parlett, B. N., 234                   QR algorithm, 133
                            Partial penalty function, 222         QR decomposition, 26, 49, 50, 64
                            Partial pivoting, 75                  Quadratic equation, 85, 244
                            Pascal, 12                            Quadratic form, 22, 89, 190, 198, 235
                            Pauling, L., 28                       Quadratic or parabolic approximation, 15 1
                            Penalty functions, 222, 223           Quadratic termination, 188, 199, 236
                            Penrose, R., 26                       Quantum mechanics, 28
                            Penrose conditions for generalised inverse, 26  Quasi-Newton methods, 187
                            Permutations or interchanges, 75
                            Perry, A., 144, 230
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                            Peters, G., 105                       R  statistic, 45, 63
                            Pierce, B. O., 139                    Radix, 7
                            Pivoting, 75, 93, 95, 97              Ralston, A., 95, 104, 121, 127, 218
                            Plane rotation, 32, 49, 54, 126       Rank, 20
                             formulae, 34                         Rank-deficient case, 24, 25, 55
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