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@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +Glade support/Main maintainer: Robert Ancell <[email protected]> +Original author/maintainer: Rich Burridge <[email protected]> +Arithmetic precedence support: Sami Pietila <[email protected]> + +---- + +The maths library used by gcalctool is based on the freely available MP +multi-precision floating-point arithmetic package originally written in +FORTRAN by Richard Brent in the 1970's, when he was with the Computer +Centre, Australian National University. + +It has been converted from FORTRAN into C using the freely available +f2c translator, available via netlib on research.att.com. + +The subsequently converted C code has then been tidied up, mainly to +remove any dependencies on the libI77 and libF77 support libraries. + +More information on this MP package can be found at: + +ACM Paper: + +http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/richard.brent/pd/rpb042.pdf + +User Guide: + +http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/richard.brent/pd/rpb035.pdf + +Source Code: + +http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/richard.brent/ftp/rpb043/rpb043.tar.gz + +---- + +Acknowledgements for the MATE/Gtk+ version: + +Dennis Cranston and Andrew Sobala for various bug fixes. +Calum Benson for HCI advice. +Breda McColgan for online help. +Evan Martin <[email protected]> for help with the menu buttons. +Gregory Merchan <[email protected]> for the calctool_display_frame +custom widget. + +---- + +Acknowledgements from the previous versions (circa 1990): + +Thanks to Ed Falk at Sun Microsystems (Mountain View) for most of the +basic arithmetical algorithms used, to Andrew Nicholson for revising the +previous version of the NeWS code, to Sriram Ramachandran for fixing up +the XView code, to Hala Abdalla for the original implementation of the +popup menu and function keyboard support, to Didier Poirot for the +calctool Imakefiles, and to Sisira Jayasinghe for better error detecting +addition, subtraction, multiplication and division routines for the +maths library. + +Thanks go also to James Buster, David Weaver, Steve Damron, Mike Bender, +Charles Tierney, Trevor Watson, Marla Berg, David Hough, Jeff Donsbach, +Mel Melchner, Peter Allott, Skip Gilbrech, Tom Friedel, Keith McNeill +Stephen Frede, Johan Vromans, David Karr, Steve Alexander, Gary Bartlett, +Steve Nahm, Daniel Yang and Rick Stevenson for bug reports and/or bug fixes +plus sugggested enhancements. |