C++ Standard Library, The: A Tutorial and Reference, 2nd Edition

Chapter 17. Numerics

This chapter describes numeric components of the C++ standard library. In particular, it presents the components for random numbers and distributions, the classes for complex numbers, the global numeric functions that are inherited from the C library, and value arrays.

However, the C++ standard library provides more numeric components:

1. For all fundamental numeric data types, the implementation-specific aspects of their representation are specified by numeric_limits, as described in Section 5.3, page 115.

2. Class ratio<> provides fractional arithmetics especially as a base for durations and timepoints (see Section 5.6, page 140).

3. The STL contains some numeric algorithms, which are described in Section 11.11, page 623 ...