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Student Geometry Calculator Program
Version 3.03
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Copyright 1995 by Julio Cesar Licéa - All rights Reserved
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Disclaimer of Waranty
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This program is provided AS IS without any warranty, expressed or
implied, including but not limited to fitness for a particular use.
The user of this program takes full responsibility for running this
program on their computer. The author cannot be held accountable
for any damage to computer equimpment or loss of data caused by the
execution of this program.
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Registration
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Please keep in mind that this program is not free. After an evaluation
period, if you find the program to be beneficial to your needs, you are
asked to register this program.
This program is being marketed under the shareware concept. It is
distributed through access channels available to the public so that
possible buyers have a chance of evaluating this product before they
make the decision to buy it. If you decide to use this program, you
are under a legal obligation to register this program with it's author.
Protection comes by State, Federal, and International copyright laws.
To register, please print out REGISTER.TXT, fill out the registration
form and send it in with the registration fee.
Once you register, you will be sent a version of the program that has
the any of my many pleas for money removed (mainly, the exit display).
You will also be periodically noticed via U.S. Postal Mail of major
updates. As of this version, I have decided to keep true to the
concept of shareware and have decided to no longer cripple the share-
ware version of this program.
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Distribution License
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You are free to, and even encouraged, to distribute this program for
non-commercial use. However, no fee is to be charged for the use,
copying, or the distribution of this program. In addition to this, the
program is not to me modified in any way.
Computer user groups are free to make copies of this program and
distribute it among members for a fee that would cover the copying of
the program and other administrative costs. Subscription Bulletin
Board Systems are free to post this program for download by its
subscribers.
Shareware vedors are free to distribute this program for a fee under
than $8.00 US to cover copying and other administrative costs.
Otherwise, distributors have to obtain written permission from the
author. CD-ROM producers have to obtain a written permission from the
author.
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Introduction
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There are millions of "calculator" type programs on the shareware
market today. However, there is no "perfect" calculator program,
especially when it comes to making geometric calculations. So I
decided to try and develop the complete package. Though this current
prorgram may be far from perfect, it's a good beginning. In time and
with the help of users, I intend to make this program both powerful
and userfriendly.
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Requirements
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To run this program, the following hardware is required...
--> 80286 or higher computer processor.
--> A monitor might be nice :)
--> A keyboard should also help :)
--> 640k total conventional memory
(but it should run fine with less memory but
that's in theory)
That's about it. In a near future version of this program, I intend
to add more conversions, more Trig functions, and more types of
mathematical computations. I also intend to change the user
interface to something a bit more "friendly."
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Instructions
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This is a very simple program to use. To execute the program, just
type the following at the DOS prompt...
GCALC
This will start the program. Just following the instructions and
prompts that come up on the display. Select the computation you wish
to make. If you wish to return to the main menu at any time, just
press the ESC key. This will return you to the main menu. If you
run into problems, just type CTRL-C or CTRL-BREAK to terminate the
program.
Keep in mind that this program will round out many of the solutions.
Some examples of this would be the value of pi and square roots. This
cannot be helped. However, I've tried to make this program as precise
as possible.
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History
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0.01ß - First ßeta Release.
0.10ß - Added PC-ANSII graphics.
0.20ß - Added the ability to do conversions between certain
quantites.
0.30ß - Corrected looping problem.
0.41ß - Added loop at end of selections so program would not
terminate after only one computation. Also cleaned up
certain prompts which were cause display problems.
0.53ß - Disabled options that require "unusual" square roots
due to runtime errors created by this option. Added
closing text and a pause after each computation so
users would have an oppertunity to read the screen
text. Integer vs. Decimals problem fixed.
0.54ß - Added a print function for the printing of the
registration form. Also cleaned up certain prompts.
0.55ß - Disabled the square root computation option from the
math basics menu due to error that caused a runtime
error.
0.60ß - Added VGA graphics to opening and closing screens.
Also cleaned up fonts (again).
0.64ß - Wrote instructions and readme.1st file. Also created a
"bare" installation program.
0.70ß - Split up the program into two different programs. One
of the programs requires a VGA monitor. The other does
not require a VGA monitor. The following updates listed
are only applicable to the monochrome version of the
program.
1.00 - Cleaned up the program. Deleted installation program.
1.01 - First major release of this program. Cleaned up some of
the prompts and tied up some loose ends within the
program.
1.02 - Rewrote all the documents and changed certain prices of
the program.
1.10 - Changed all of the documents agains to some degree.
Some of them gave incorrect information. I also
corrected a problem with finding the area of a circle.
Updated the final screen.
2.20 - Major changes have been made to the program. First of
all, as always, the screens have been cleaned up again.
I have corrected certain errors I found in some of the
formulas in the program (sorry :). In addition to
this, I have gotten rid of the "clunky" basic math
interface and replaced it with a standard RPN
calculator. Along with the calculator, the ability
to compute LOGs has been added. If you haven't also
noticed by now, the size of this program has been
considerably shortened. There have also been more
pricing changes.
3.01 - I've done some "household cleaning" of this program.
The program has had all of the "cripples" removed so
that everyone can fully enjoy using this program.
Please also note that the registration fee has been
reduced.
3.02 - The conversions option has been deleted from the
program. This part of the program had many bugs to
it as well as it did not help accomplish what this
program is intended to do.
3.03 - Changed the name of the program in order to keep it
from being confused with another program with the
same name.
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Special Thanks
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Special thanks to Will Boyett who has supported me in my programming
pursuits. And I also wish to thank all my friends at LACES for
putting up with me. Lastly, I wish to dedicate this program to the
St. Ambrose School class of 1993. May you all go on fulfill your
life-long aspirations.