Numerical Recipes Software in Cloudy Cloudy can ve used in an optimization mode in which several input parameters are varied to obtain a best fit to observed lines or column densities. This requires the amoeba subroutine from Numerical Recipes. Numerical Recipes Software do not permit their codes to be redistributed via an ftp account such as this, so the required subroutine is empty in the version of cloudy in this account. It is necessary for you to obtain your own copy of amoeba and making a few changes, if this optimization option is desired.