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The long history and little progress of efforts to systematically evaluate and certify numerical software is recounted. Although this continues to be a serious problem, traditional numerical software libraries themselves are becoming increasingly irrelevant in today’s computing environment. The reasons for this are described and some prescriptions for overcoming this crisis are presented.
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Pool, J.C.T. (1997). Is numerical software relevant? Is it too late to worry about quality?. In: Boisvert, R.F. (eds) Quality of Numerical Software. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-5041-2940-4_1
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