Guide to Available Mathematical Software

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The Guide to Available Mathematical Software (GAMS) is a project of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to classify mathematical software by the type of problem that it solves. GAMS became public in 1985. [1] It indexes Netlib and other packages, some of them public domain software and some proprietary software. [2] [3] [4] [5]

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