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Article #355Mathematics Archives Newsletter #6
From: Larry Husch
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:14
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:14
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* MATHEMATICS ARCHIVES UPDATES January 11, 1993 *
* at WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU MSDOS Update #6 *
* Moderators: *
* mac - Earl D. Fife, Dept. Mathematics *
* Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI *
* fife@CALVIN.EDU *
* msdos - Larry Husch, Dept. Mathematics *
* University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN *
* husch@WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU *
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The Mathematics Archives has been mentioned twice in recently
published works.
There is a short description of the Mathematics Archives in the
book The Whole Internet - User's Guide and Catalog by Ed Krol
(publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.) This book has a lot of
useful information about what is available via Internet. If you
are a neophyte, then you may want to look at it. Unfortunately,
it had the wrong subdirectory for the Mathematics Archives.
There is a three page article about the Mathematics Archives
in Maths & Stats, a quarterly newsletter published by the CTI
Centre for Mathematics and Statistics in Birmingham, England. The
article contains a lot of information for those in the United
Kingdom who wish to download files from the Mathematics Archives.
For our colleagues there, they may want to get in contact with
Pam Bishop for further information (ctimath@bham).
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The following is a list of recent additions and listings of msdos
software in Mathematics Archives. Instructions for downloading files
are given at the end of this article. If you are unfamiliar with
ftp and/or decompressing files or if you do not have access to ftp
and want information on downloading and uncompressing files, drop a
note to Larry Husch asking for this information.
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Ivo Deuntsch has modified the datafile for his program to calculate
aliquot chains which is contained in aliquot.zip so that it now
contains the targets of the first 200,000 numbers. aliquot.zip can
be downloaded from either of the subdirectories number.theory or
dynamics.
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David Lomen told me that many of the University of Arizona fine group
of programs have been ugraded and many new packages added. The
following are the new packages. The subdirectory of the Mathematics
Archives in which the program is contained is listed in parentheses
after the program's name.
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bayes.zip (statistics)
BAYES' THEOREM 1.01
(c) Copyright 1992. All rights reserved.
David Lovelock and Dan Madden
Department of Mathematics
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721
This program deals with Probabilities, Conditional Probabilities,
Bayes' Theorem, and how they are used in Search and Rescue to look
for a missing subject lost in a hostile environment.
This program can be used with a mouse. When you first run this
program you should check the sub-menu item "search and rescue" under
the menu item "education".
This program is a part of the Mathematical Toolkits Software
developed at the University of Arizona. A manual for all of the
Toolkits is available from the Department of Mathematics at the
University of Arizona for $3.
(modified from the documentation)
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complex.zip (complex.variables)
COMPLEX FUNCTIONS 0.08
(c) Copyright 1990, 1991. All rights reserved.
Austin Kreisler, Donald Weaver, and David Lovelock.
Department of Mathematics
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721
After the user enters a rational function, the program will
graph the images of either circles or squares.
This program is a part of the Mathematical Toolkits Software
developed at the University of Arizona. A manual for all of the
Toolkits is available from the Department of Mathematics at the
University of Arizona for $3.
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conics.zip (miscellaneous)
CONICS 1.0
(c) Copyright 1992. All rights reserved.
David Lovelock and Donald Smith
Department of Mathematics
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721
This program plots conics in standard form, as well as quadratic
curves. The constants that usually occur in these formula can be
changed at will and the curves redrawn.
This program is a part of the Mathematical Toolkits Software
developed at the University of Arizona. A manual for all of the
Toolkits is available from the Department of Mathematics at the
University of Arizona for $3.
(from the documentation)
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cryptaid.zip (miscellaneous)
CRYPTAID
A CRYPTANALYSIS HELPER
David Lovelock
Department of Mathematics
University of Arizona
This program is designed to aid in the decoding of simple
substitution aristocrat ciphers, i.e. each letter in the original
message is replaced throughout by a unique cipher letter code, while
punctuation and spaces are unchanged. Although this package is
designed to help solve aristocrats, it can also be used to create
them.
This program is a part of the Mathematical Toolkits Software
developed at the University of Arizona. A manual for all of the
Toolkits is available from the Department of Mathematics at the
University of Arizona for $3.
(adapted from the documentation)
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demo.zip (calculus, miscellaneous)
INTERACTIVE DEMONSTRATIONS AND TEACHING AIDS
Version 1.02
Copyright (c) 1991, 1992 David Lovelock
Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona
A collection of seven miscellaneous programs: Grid, Polar Grid
(draws rectangular and polar grids resp.), Trig 1, Trig 2, Trig 3
(graphically demonstrates the definitions of the trig functions),
x^n sin(1/x) (animated display of tangent lines to these curves),
and Polygons (draws regular polygons in a circle and calculates
area and perimeter).
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demo2.zip (statistics, miscellaneous)
INTERACTIVE DEMONSTRATIONS AND TEACHING AIDS 2
Version 1.00
Copyright (c) 1992 David Lovelock
Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona
A collection of seven miscellaneous programs: Number Line,
Temperature (elementary graphing), Venn Diagrams, Percent - Square,
Percent - Circle (percentages), Galton Box, Shuffle (permutations).
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feuer.zip (geometry)
FEUERBACH'S THEOREM 1.01
(c) Copyright 1992. All rights reserved.
Stephen Tellman and David Lovelock
Department of Mathematics
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721
This program allows you to experiment with the size of a triangle
and see the resulting incircles, excircles, circumcircles and
nine-point circles. It is designed to give a pictorial representation
of Feuerbach's Theorem which states that the nine-point circle of a
triangle T passes through the following nine points: the midpoints of
each side of T, the foot of each altitude of T and the Euler points of
T. Furthermore, the nine-point circle of T is tangent to the
inscribed circle of T and the three exscribed circles of T.
This program is a part of the Mathematical Toolkits Software
developed at the University of Arizona. A manual for all of the
Toolkits is available from the Department of Mathematics at the
University of Arizona for $3.
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histo.zip (statistics)
HISTOGRAMS 1.01
(c) Copyright 1989, 1992. All rights reserved.
David Gay and David Lovelock
Department of Mathematics
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721
This program will calculate the mean, median, and standard
deviation of a data set. It will also generate a histogram, a bar
chart, a box and whisker plot, and a stem and leaf plot. A mouse can
be used with this program.
This program is a part of the Mathematical Toolkits Software
developed at the University of Arizona. A manual for all of the
Toolkits is available from the Department of Mathematics at the
University of Arizona for $3.
(modified from the documentation)
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neural.zip (miscellaneous)
NEURAL NETWORKS 0.04
(c) Copyright 1992. All rights reserved.
Payton Bissell, Dan Schwartz, William Velez, and David Lovelock
Department of Mathematics
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721
For information on what this program does, please see Scott Hyder
and William Velez's "Context Addressable Memory: An Example of a
Neural Network".
This program is a part of the Mathematical Toolkits Software
developed at the University of Arizona. A manual for all of the
Toolkits is available from the Department of Mathematics at the
University of Arizona for $3.
(adapted from the documentation)
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ruria.zip (college.algebra)
R U Ready For Intermediate Algebra ?
Version 1.0
David Lovelock
Department of Mathematics
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
One of the problems we encounter while teaching intermediate algebra
is that many students do not have the mathematical skills which are
essential for success. This is true even though the prerequisite
course (Beginning Algebra) has been passed.
To address this problem, the Mathematics Department of the
University of Arizona decided to write a computer program which a
student can use before starting intermediate algebra. This program
would quiz the student on all sections of algebra which are essential
to intermediate algebra. In other words, it would not review all of
intermediate algebra, but would concentrate on those areas which are
actually needed in intermediate algebra.
(modified from the documentation)
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truth.zip (discrete.math)
TRUTH TABLES 1.01
(c) Copyright 1992. All rights reserved.
David Lovelock
Department of Mathematics
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721
This program displays Truth Tables. Expressions are constructed
from the statements p, q, and r, and the four operations, "v" (or),
"^" (and), "'" (not), and ">" (implies).
This program is a part of the Mathematical Toolkits Software
developed at the University of Arizona. A manual for all of the
Toolkits is available from the Department of Mathematics at the
University of Arizona for $3.
(from the documentation)
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voting.zip (discrete.math)
VOTING METHODS 1.01
(c) Copyright 1992. All rights reserved.
David Lovelock
Department of Mathematics
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721
This program allows you to experiment with four different
voting methods: Plurality, Borda Count, Plurality with elimination,
and Pairwise Comparisons.
This program is a part of the Mathematical Toolkits Software
developed at the University of Arizona. A manual for all of the
Toolkits is available from the Department of Mathematics at the
University of Arizona for $3.
(from the documentation)
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The following are the packages from the University of Arizona which
have been upgraded. They are listed in the format: name of program,
new version number and the subdirectory of the Mathematics Archives
in which they are contained.
cnumbers.zip 1.10 college.algebra
division.zip 1.05 modern.algebra
findpoly.zip 1.09 calculus
fortune.zip 1.35 miscellaneous
identify.zip 1.08 miscellaneous
implicit.zip 1.05 miscellaneous
integral.zip 1.17 calculus
interpol.zip 1.11 modelling
iterate.zip 1.17 dynamics
limits.zip 1.07 calculus
linalg.zip 3.17 linear.algebra
lineint.zip 1.06 adv.calculus
linsys.zip 1.05 college.algebra
oldes.zip 1.11 diff.equations
polar.zip 1.11 miscellaneous
rootfind.zip 1.23 calculus
rurc1.zip 2.07 calculus
rurc2.zip 1.03 calculus
rurc3.zip 1.04 calculus
rurca.zip 1.02 college.algebra
rurode.zip 1.05 diff.equations
sequence.zip 1.12 calculus
simplex.zip 1.0 discrete.math
slopes.zip 1.17 diff.equations
twiddle.zip 1.36 miscellaneous
twodmaps.zip 1.14 dynamics, linear.algebra
venn.zip 1.08 discrete.math
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Aiyah Vish has submitted the following program to the Mathematics
Archives.
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winparab.zip (miscellaneous)
Parabola v1.0
Aiyah Vish
Dept. of Electrical Eng.
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK, S7N OWO Canada
viswanath@sask.usask.ca
One may end up with x-y values from experiments or any other situation
which may not always be linear in nature. Under such circumstances
it is rather difficult to perform differentiation or achieve a best-fit
to the data, either due to the fact that the differentiation gets too
noisy or the best-fit may not be a true representation of the original
data! In this algorithm, a parabolic curve is plotted through the x-y
values and the output of differentiated and best-fit values are written
to a file. This program requires Microsoft Windows 3.
(from the documentation)
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The following programs are recent additions to sites which are
mirrored by WUARCHIVE. We have established soft links in the
listed subdirectories of edu/math/msdos.
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corr.zip (statistics)
Correlation
John Hattie
University of Western Australia
jhattie@ecel.uwa.edu.au
A collection of tutorials to aid in the teaching of Correlation, the
Central Limit Theorem, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Analysis of
Variance, and the use of the summation notation in an elementary
statistics course.
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ucalc12.zip (calculus)
ULTIMATE CALCULATOR 1.2
Copyright (C) 1992 by Daniel Corbier
corbier@andrews.edu
Ucalc is a high precision scientific calculator which can evaluate
expressions, solve equations, perform numerical integrations, and do
summations. It supports many built-in functions, operators, numerical
notations, and modes. It also allows for user-defined functions and
variables. There are two ways of running the Ultimate Calculator:
either at the DOS command line as UCALC 5+4*8/2 [enter] or in an
interactive environment. Shareware.
(modified from the documentation)
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wgplt338.zip (miscellaneous)
wgpltdem.zip (miscellaneous)
GNUPLOT FOR WINDOWS
Copyright(C)
Colin Kelley
Thomas Williams
GNUPLOT is a command-driven interactive function plotting program. With
this program you can draw the graphs of real valued functions, parametric
equations in both 2 and 3 dimensions and functions in polar coordinates.
In addition, you can get plots of data sets in various formats. GNUPLOT
has been written for many platforms and this is a port to Microsoft
Windows version 3 which is needed to run the program. There is some
on-line documentation. wgpltdem.zip is a collection of demos which can
be both used to see some sample code and the possible output of the
program.
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mgvga441.zip (miscellaneous)
MASTER-GRAPH (tm) Version 4.31
Copyright (c) 1990-1992
Oded Davidy and Yaniv Shaya
MASTER-GRAPH (tm) is a very easy to use pubic domain 2d graph
plotting program. It offers high-school pupils and college/university
students a very flexible way to analyse different graphs for various
purposes. Must use a 80286/386/486 computer. Supports the use of a
mouse.
(modified from the documentation)
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shuffle2.zip
Number list order randomizer, w/ASM source
David Kirschbaum
Toad Hall
kirsch@sesi.com
A rewrite of SHUFFLE.C (from SHUFFLE.ZIP) in 8086 assembly language.
Smaller, faster, handles a wider range of numbers. This has *not*
replaced SHUFFLE.ZIP, since some might wish to stick with C rather
than assembly language.
(from authors' announcement)
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A. K. Head has announced a new version of his program LIE for Lie
analysis of differential equations on IBM type PCs which is called
lie34.zip (adv.diff.equations). The improvements are:
Addition of a facility so that, at the end of an analysis, the results
can be written to a diskfile. Invoking RESULTS(filename,extension)
writes to that file the three arrays A#,V# (which contains the vectors)
and NZC# ( which contains the non-zero commutators ). If any of these
was not calculated then this will be indicated by the value FALSE.
If the named file does not exist then it is created. If it does exist
then the results are appended to the end of the file, thus the results
could be appended to the input data file.
Changes to heuristics of DOSOLV to reduce the possibility of looping
and other improvements to factorization.
The screen display of the amount of free workspace after each Garbage
Collection, as described at the start of MORELIE.DOC, can now be turned
on and off by GCON() and GCOFF(). The initial default is OFF.
LIOUVIL.DAT and PESKY.DAT are examples of differential equations
that LIE cannot fully solve by itself but requires your help.
A paper on program LIE has been submitted to " Computer Physics
Communications ".
(from author's announcement)
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Robert Davies has announced an upgrade of his program which is now
called newmat07.zip (linear.algebra). The following is his
announcement:
NEWMAT07.ZIP C++ classes and functions for Matrices
The package supports classes Matrix, UpperTriangularMatrix,
LowerTriangularMatrix, DiagonalMatrix, SymmetricMatrix, BandMatrix,
UpperBandMatrix, LowerBandMatrix, SymmetricBandMatrix, RowVector,
ColumnVector. Only one element type is supported. The package includes
the operations *, +, -, inverse, transpose, conversion between types,
submatrix, determinant, Cholesky decomposition, Householder
triangularisation, singular value decomposition, symmetric eigenvalue
analysis, fast Fourier transform, sort, print, an interface to
"Numerical Recipes in C" programs, and an emulation of exceptions.
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Roger Schlafly has announced a revision of his program which is now
called mrcry209.zip (calculus, miscellaneous). The following is his
announcement:
MRCRY209.ZIP Math solver, from Borland's Eureka, Shareware
Mercury v2.09 is an update of Borland's Eureka 1.0 for the IBM PC.
When Borland decided to concentrate on spreadsheet and database
products, Eureka was spun off. Mercury was developed from that code
base, and is being released in this form to satisfy customer requests
for new versions of Eureka. It is labelled version 2 because it is
similar to what version 2 of Eureka would have been.
Mercury is a program for solving equations on the IBM PC. It is
easy to use, interactive, and powerful. With it, you can
* evaluate mathematical expressions.
* solve for the roots of an equation.
* solve a system of equations.
* maximize or minimize a function, with or without constraints.
* evaluate derivatives and definite integrals.
* plot one or more functions.
* print a report or a graph.
Mercury has a built-in editor, pull-down menus, online help,
and all the conveniences necessary to make it accessible to
computer novices.
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WUARCHIVE at Washington University at St. Louis is now a site for the
storage of public domain and shareware software and other materials
which can be utilized in the teaching of mathematics at the college
and university levels.
To access these files, use anonymous FTP to wuarchive.wustl.edu,
switch to the subdirectory /edu/math/msdos if you are interested
in software which can be used on msdos computers or switch to the
subdirectory /edu/math/mac for software which can be used on
macintosh computers. Change to the subdirectory which is the subject
area for which you would like to obtain software. In each subject
area there is a file 00info.txt which contains a listing of all
programs in the area together with a short abstract similar to the
above abstracts.
If you have any comments, suggestions about, problems with, etc.
the Mathematics Archives, please contact one of the moderators
(macintosh) Earl Fife at fife@calvin.edu or (msdos) Larry Husch
at husch@wuarchive.wustl.edu If you want to be added to the
mailing list of this newsletter please send your email address
to Larry. If you would like to submit program(s) and/or other
appropriate material or know of material which you believe should
be made available in the Mathematics Archives, then get in contact
with Earl or Larry at the addresses listed at the top of this
article.
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