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)

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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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For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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