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This book is intended to help those people who have learnt to program using the Fortran language, and who want to learn more of the tricks of the trade. A bewildering variety of books confront those who wish to learn the basic features of Fortran. Similarly, those who are using Fortran for mathematical purposes can choose from a number of books on numerical analysis. On the other hand, practical descriptions of commonly used techniques for non-mathematical applications are comparatively rare. Knowledge of such techniques tends to circulate as computer folk-lore in the absence of suitable books. This is the need which the present volume seeks to fill