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- 5th December, 1989
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- About TSBITSxx in General
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- Apply question mark ? with the program calls for brief descriptions.
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- This package may be used and distributed freely for NON-COMMERCIAL,
- NON-INSTITUTIONAL, PRIVATE purposes, provided it is not changed in any way.
- For ANY other usage contact the author. No part of this package may be
- distributed separately.
-
- The programs are under development. Comments and contacts are welcome. If you
- have any comments, please do not hesitate to use electronic mail for
- communication.
- InterNet address: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (preferred)
- Funet address: VAKK::SALMI
- Bitnet address: SALMI@FINFUN
- FidoNet address: 2:515/1 (Micro Maniacs Opus, To: Timo Salmi)
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- The author shall not be liable to the user for any direct, indirect or
- consequential loss arising from the use of, or inability to use, any program
- or file howsoever caused. No warranty is given that the programs will work
- under all circumstances.
-
- Timo Salmi
- Professor of Accounting and Business Finance
- School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa
- P.O. BOX 297, SF-65101 Vaasa, Finland
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- Timo Salmi BITS release 1.7 (TSBITS17) includes the following
- mathematical programs:
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- If you have an earlier than 1.2 version of TSBITS, please note that the .exe
- files replace the earlier .com files with the same name. (If you have an .exe
- and a .com file with the same name on the same directory, the outdated .com
- file is executed.) The .exe versions have been compiled with TurboPascal 4.0
- and 5.0, and the range of integers that BITWISE and FACTORS can handle was
- been greatly extended. Note that while (some) .com programs can be aborted by
- pressing crtl+c, .exe programs can be halted with ctrl+break.
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- BITWISE.EXE (Ver 2.3)
- Performs bit operations on decimal integers giving the results both in binary
- and decimal.
- Release notes. Version 2.3: Line editing and input recall now possible.
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- CONVBASE.EXE (Ver 2.5)
- Converts (also large, that is longint) non-negative integer values from one
- base to another. The base can be from 2 to 32. The converted values are
- spaced (since version 2.2) for better readability. The spacing depends on the
- base.
- Release notes: Version 2.5: The default base which is given by pressing the
- enter (return) key is now changed every time a new base is entered. This
- makes repeated operations much more convenient. - The acceptable bases have
- been extended from 32 to 36. - In entering the value to be converted, input
- recall and line editing is now available. Enter ? at the VALUE query for the
- help on the available keys. - The check for illegal digits did not catch the
- ascii characters from : to >. This has been remedied.
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- FACTORS.EXE (Ver 2.3)
- Optionally finds factors of integers, largest common divisors, and smallest
- common dividees. Be warned that finding the factors of the new (since 1.2)
- large integers (such as 999999999) takes quite awhile. If you wonder what
- this means, it is simply that this program was originally a Turbo Pascal
- 3.02A program (and a QL Computer One pascal program even before that). Turbo
- Pascal 3 integers were limited to an upper bound of 32767, and it was version
- 4.0 that introduced long integers into Turbo Pascal.
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- BINTODEC.EXE, DECTOBIN.EXE, DECTOHEX.EXE, HEXTODEC.EXE.
- The command-like programs can be used instead of CONVBASE for the most common
- conversions. Usage e.g. BINTODEC BinaryValue.
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- COMDIV (Ver. 1.01)
- Calculates the largest common divisor of two integers.
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