New on CTAN: xintsession

[CTAN Announcements]

Jean-François Burnol submitted the

                xintsession

package.

Version:  0.1 2021-04-13
License:  lppl1.3c

Summary description:  Interactive computing sessions (fractions, floating points, polynomials)

Announcement text:
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 1.  Execute "etex", or better, "rlwrap etex"
 2.  At the ** prompt, enter "xintsession" and hit "RET",
 3.  A welcome message is printed, hit the "RET" key at the * prompt.

 You are now ready to make computations, inclusive of defining variables
 and functions! Here is an example session:

     (Please type a command or say `\end')
     *  1+1/2+1/3+1/4+1/5;
     (@_1)    137/60
     *  @_^3 ;
     (@_2)    2571353/216000
     *  add(1/i, i=1..50);
     (@_3)    13943237577224054960759/3099044504245996706400
     *&fp
     fp mode (16 digits)
     *  @_;
     (@_4)    4.499205338329425
     *  add(1/i, i=1..1000);
     (@_5)    7.485470860550346
     *&bye
     Did I say something wrong?
     Session transcript written on xintsession-210413_20h24.tex
     No pages of output.
     Transcript written on xintsession.log.

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The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at
   https://ctan.org/pkg/xintsession

The package’s files themselves can be inspected at
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/plain/contrib/xintsession/

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   Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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