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Numerical Computing
Both platforms contain facilities for performing standard numeric computations such as root-finding, function optimization, numerical integration or quadrature, numerically solving differential equations, and so on. MATLAB has a longer history of use in scientific computing, and there are a number of standard numerical analysis textbooks whose examples are all based around MATLAB [4, 7, 10, 17, 18, 19, 27]. The textbook market in this area has not yet matured for R, though reference [14] includes some material on numerical computing.
11.1 Root-finding
Given a function of one variable, f(x), one may want to find a value x satisfying f(x) = 0. Both platforms provide straightforward ways to do this.
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