ANNOUNCE: GENIUS 1.0.20 the "Iconic ERF" release

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Genius is a general purpose calculator with many advanced capabilities.

To find out more go to:

http://www.jirka.org/genius.html

 

A couple of bugfixes and minor improvements have accumulated. The main

reason to make the release is that it should now compile with GCC 5

hopefully. There are new icons too, including scalable.

 

In any case, Genius is one of the oldest GNOME projects going back to late

1997. It was the original GNOME calculator before I got wild ideas about it

doing absolutely everything. It is programmable, has a powerful language and

handles many fun features including support for matrices, rational numbers,

and nice 2D and 3D plotting. The GUI version requires GNOME2 (at least glib2

if you don't want a GUI) a recent enough GMP library and the MPFR library.

You can still use the command line version if you prefer non-gui interface.

 

Here are the news in 1.0.20:

 

* Add more sizes of icons including SVG, and add Keywords to the .desktop file

* Documentation updates

* Fix PeriodicExtension function

* ErrorFunction (erf) is using MPFR for real values so it is far more precise

and faster

* The Fourier series example is no longer using a hand coded graph and hand

computed series, so it can now be easily modified to show series for

different functions

* Fix GCC 5 compilation

* A couple of minor fixes in the plotting code including one possible crasher

* Translation updates (Wolfgang Stöggl, Marek Černocký, Maria Mavridou,

ÃœøрþÑÂûðò ÃÂøúþûøћ, Miguel Rodríguez Núñez, Daniel Mustieles, Piotr Drag,

Rafael Ferreira)

 

* During making of these changes the author (Jiri) was partially supported by

NSF grant DMS 1362337 and the Oklahoma State University

 

http://download.gnome.org/sources/genius/1.0/

ftp://ftp.5z.com/pub/genius/

http://www.jirka.org/genius.html

 

Genius is in Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, GARNOME, OpenSUSE, and probably other

distribution repositories, so check those. Usually you want to install two

packages: genius and gnome-genius (perhaps also gnome-common on some

distros). Of course, it will be a little bit before this version hits those

servers ...

 

Have fun,

 

Jiri

 

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Jiri (George) Lebl, http://math.okstate.edu/people/lebl/ or

http://www.jirka.org/

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