# Ruby number crunching?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-number-crunching/59460>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 3, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-number-crunching/59460 "2006-05-03T19:07:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![alex789](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@alex789](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alex789)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-number-crunching/59460/1 "2006-05-03T19:07:15Z")

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In my little Ruby and Rails learning experiment I’ve now come to the  
point where I need a library to do some number crunching, something  
similar to python Numeric or numarray.

I head my browser to the mighty google and 15 minutes I haven’t found  
a single itsy bitsy little library!

Am I incompetent at googling or are there really no ruby number  
crunching libraries?

alex

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**Author:** ![alex789](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@alex789](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alex789)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-number-crunching/59460/2 "2006-05-03T19:07:18Z")

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On Wed, 3 May 2006, Polite wrote:

> alex  
> the fundemental ones

[http://narray.rubyforge.org/](http://narray.rubyforge.org/)  
[http://rb-gsl.rubyforge.org/](http://rb-gsl.rubyforge.org/)

more reading

[http://sciruby.codeforpeople.com/](http://sciruby.codeforpeople.com/)

esp

[http://sciruby.codeforpeople.com/sr.cgi/InterestingProjects](http://sciruby.codeforpeople.com/sr.cgi/InterestingProjects)

regards.

-a

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**Author:** ![alex789](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@alex789](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alex789)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-number-crunching/59460/3 "2006-05-03T19:48:18Z")

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On May 3, 2006, at 9:33 AM, Polite wrote:

> alex

[http://narray.rubyforge.org/](http://narray.rubyforge.org/)

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**Author:** ![alex789](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@alex789](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alex789)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-number-crunching/59460/4 "2006-05-03T22:13:49Z")

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> > Am I incompetent at googling …

And the answer is YES 😉