e development of high quality linear algebra software,
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<a href="http://www.netlib.org/lapack/">LAPACK</a> for example.
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The publications given in Section 3 define the specifications for the BLAS, and a Fortran77 reference implementation of
the BLAS is located in the <a href="http://www.netlib.org/blas/">blas directory</a> of Netlib, together with testing and
timing software.  For information on efficient versions of the BLAS, see Section 5.
