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- Copyright notice:
-
- This is version 1.36 of PARI, (c) 1989, 1991 by
- C. Batut, D. Bernardi, H. Cohen and M. Olivier.
-
- This software is intended as a service to the scientific community,
- but the authors cannot be held responsible for any consequences,
- either direct or indirect, which the use of this package may have.
- It can be freely copied and spread, as long as no files are modified, and
- that the whole package (source and manual), including this README file
- is included.
-
- The simplest way to compile the users manual is to "make" in the tex directory.
-
- For those already familiar with version 1.35 of Pari, read the text file
- Newin1.36 to see what has changed between 1.35 and 1.36.
-
- Some on-line help can be
- obtained (\c for the commands, and ?command for a one line
- description of the command; some commands are not documented
- at all in this on-line help e.g. % to get modulo, [,,,] to get
- vectors, [,,,;,,,;,,,;,,,] to get matrices etc...).
-
- Complete on-line help can be obtained by using GP in a GNUemacs
- buffer (see section 3.10 of the manual).
-
- The output routines by default print in "prettymatrix" format. Type \m if
- you want to be in "raw" format. The "prettyprint" format
- (command \p under gp see section 2.2.10) is not very nice and
- needs to be improved.
-
- Many bugs remain, known and unknown. Among the most notable known
- one is the bad treatment of power series in more than one variable.
- This will be corrected some time in the future.
-
- Evidently you will find bugs in PARI, some subtle, some not, and
- you may also consider it indispensable to have some extra tools
- available. We are constantly expanding the PARI library,
- but it takes time and work.
- In any case, we would appreciate correspondence; please be
- tolerant. We know many of the defects in PARI, so don't flame us.
- After all, you don't have to use it. On the other hand, we will
- enormously appreciate constructive criticisms, or even programs for
- those who want to delve in the innards of PARI without the technical
- reference manual, which remains to be written (a start is Chapter 5
- of the users manual).
-
- Again, we repeat that you must feel free to spread PARI if you think
- it useful, with this README file included. However do NOT spread modified
- versions without getting permission from us.
-
- The two modes in which you can use PARI are:
- -- The library mode
- -- The programmable calculator mode, called gp.
- In addition, gp can be used in a special GNUemacs buffer, and
- this provides additional capabilities (thanks mainly to David Carlisle).
-
-
- Our address is:
- Prof. Henri COHEN (re: PARI)
- UFR de Mathematiques et Informatique
- Universite Bordeaux I
- 351 Cours de la Liberation
- 33405 TALENCE CEDEX
- FRANCE
-
- e-mail: pari@alioth.greco-prog.fr (Internet number 192.33.148.35)
-
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