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- Application : !Numbers
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- by Richard Sharpe
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- Help for Version 1.10 : (5th April 1995)
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- Introduction
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- Here, hopefully is an interesting and useful program for stressed out
- mathematics teachers who like to muck about with a bit of Number Theory
- and want to get their students interested in the subject rather than bored
- mindless by the horrors of number crunching. To anyone else it is probably
- the most stupid and tedious program ever devised!
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- If you are in any doubt as to which category you belong in, please look at
- the accompanying file, "Example" and if the contents interest you or mean
- anything to you then you have my sympathy, otherwise take my advice and
- continue in bliss and ignorance.
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- Everything that !Numbers does can be done with a pocket calculator or even a
- piece of paper, if you have a great deal of time. So if your life in the
- classroom is stress free and joyful, !Numbers is definitely not for you.
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- The program began as a simple BBCBasic set of routines written on and for an
- (expletive deleted!) RM Nimbus 186, (single tasking of course) in response
- to a Year 7 girl asking me how I really expected her to find all of the
- prime palindromics between 10 000 and 20 000. I said I didn't but that I
- knew something that could, and wrote the program.
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- Later it occured to me that it would be much better to write it in the
- Desktop so that the resulting lists could be saved as text files and printed
- out.
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