Author: J. deBoer and Douglas L. Martin

National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Operating System: Paper Tape

Source Language: PAL-III

Memory Required: 4K

Other Software Required: DECUS No. 8-796

Abstract: The program uses Bjorck's Modified Gram-Schmidt orthon-

ormalising process. It will least squares fit a power series of up to 17 terms

(ranging from power -4 to power 21) to a number of data point pairs

exceeding the number of terms in the series but otherwise unrestricted.

This is done using a basic 4K-core PDP-8 with no peripherals apart from

the ASR33 Teletype but a special 5-word floating point package must be

used. The first pass of the data tape produces the power series coefficients.

An optional second pass produces the deviations of individual points

from the fitted series and the error limits of the coefficients.

Media Price Code: A2, B3, F5, G24

Catalog: August 1978