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-CONTENTS:
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-1. Introduction.
-2. Getting Started.
-3. Calctool history.
-4. Acknowledgements.
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-
-1. Introduction.
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-
-This is mate-calc, a fork of gnome-calc, the calculator application that was
-previously in the OpenWindows Deskset of the Solaris 8 operating system.
-
-It incorporates a multiple precision arithmetic packages based on the work
-of Professor Richard Brent, who has also kindly given me permission to make
-it available.
-
-There is a single graphics driver for Gtk3 included with this release.
-
-
-2. Getting started.
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-
-The manual pages also describe how to use mate-calc in detail.
-
-
-3. Calctool history.
---------------------
-
-Calctool was a project I worked on before I joined the OpenWindows DeskSet
-engineering group at Sun. It was originally released to comp.sources.unix
-in the late 1980's, and worked with many different graphics packages
-including SunView, X11, Xview, NeWS and MGR. There was also a version
-that worked on dumb tty terminals.
-
-It used a double-precision maths library that was a combination of the work
-of Fred Fish and various routines that were in the BSD 4.3 maths library.
-
-A lot of people in the community provided feedback in the form of comments,
-bug reports and fixes. In 1990, I started working in the DeskSet engineering
-group. I was working for Sun Microsystems in Australia at the time, (having
-moved there from England in 1983).
-
-I searched around looking for multiple precision maths libraries and found
-a package called MP written in FORTRAN by Richard Brent. I converted it to C,
-adjusted the glue between the resultant code and the calctool code, and this
-went on to be the basis of the calculator that was in the OpenWindows DeskSet.
-I also added scientific, financial and logical modes. This calctool was also
-the basis of the dtcalc application that is a part of CDE (albeit I had
-nothing to do with that).
-
-With its inclusion in the MATE CVS repository, it was renamed to mate-calc.
-
-More recently, Sami Pietila provided arithmetic precedence support and
-Robert Ancell converted the UI to use Glade.
-
-
-4. Acknowledgements.
---------------------
-
-See the AUTHORS file.
-
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-
-Suggestions for further improvement would be most welcome, plus bug reports
-and comments.
-
-The Mate Team.
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