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Article #11137"exact" calculator
From: Hans Boehm
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1989 14:44
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1989 14:44
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I replaced the object version of the "exact" reals calculator in titan.rice.edu:~ftp/sun-source/calc.shar.* . It is now divided into only three pieces. As before, it performs demand-driven calculation on the reals, always insuring accurate results to whatever precision is displayed on the screen. Given the expression ln((PI + e**(-500)) - PI) it produces -500. It still has a curses based user interface (functional but not very pretty). Changes include: 1. A number of glitches in the user interface were fixed. 2. A man page (largely contributed by R. P. C. Rodgers) is now included. A calculator icon is included. 3. Window resizes work under X as well as under Sunview. 4. Integer factorials and Solovay-Strassen primality testing were added. 5. It can be built under, and runs correctly under 4.0. (It runs only on Sun 3s, but essentially no functionality is lost if it is run over the network.)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: boehm@Rice.edu (Hans Boehm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: "exact" calculator Message-ID: <8902150053.AA12919@titan.rice.edu> Date: 23 Feb 89 14:44:52 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 23 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 89 18:53:11 CST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 169, message 7 of 12