HP MLIB User's Guide Vol. 2 7th Ed.

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Overview
7 Miscellaneous Routines
Overview
This chapter explains how to use VECLIB subprograms for a variety of
operations that are not included in other chapters. It includes a description of
subprograms that:
• Control shared-memory parallelism on systems with multiple processors
• Measure CPU or wall-clock time
• Generate random numbers
• Sort the elements of a vector into ascending or descending order
• Report errors detected in the usage of VECLIB subprograms
Chapter objective
After reading this chapter you will know how to use the subprograms described
in “Miscellaneous subprograms” on page 604.
Associated documentation
The following documents provide supplemental material for this chapter:
Knuth, D.E. The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 2: Seminumerical
Algorithms. Menlo Park, California: Addison-Wesley. 1973.
Knuth, D.E. The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 3: Sorting and Searching.
Menlo Park, California: Addison-Wesley. 1973.