CTAN update: xintsession
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Thu May 6 20:42:47 CEST 2021
Jean-François Burnol submitted an update to the
xintsession
package.
Version: 0.2 2021-05-05
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Interactive computing sessions (fractions, floating points, polynomials)
Announcement text:
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v0.2 (2021-05-05)
Execute "etex xintsession", or if available, "rlwrap etex xintsession"
in a command line interface. A welcome message is printed, hit the "RET"
key. 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.
This release removes former toggles &fp16, &fp24, &fp32 and replaces
them with "&fp=number" interface. Scientific functions are implemented
up to number=62.
xint 1.4e or later is required.
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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
https://mirrors.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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