John Shepherd, Duquesne University

Published March, 1998 by Prentice Hall Engineering/Science/Mathematics

Copyright 1998, 404 pp.
Paper
ISBN 0-13-660226-6
$50.67

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Appendix A: System Variables.
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Index.