Begin3 Title: xabacus Version: 8.7.1 Entered-date: 30Aug23 Description: Abacus for X. Includes a -demo option and other ideas from Luis Fernandes' independent program xabacus-1.0 and Sarat Chandran's help from Java code. Now includes help, a Russian abacus, floating point, negatives, quarters, Roman Numerals, Roman Hand Abacus, and Lee's Abacus. Includes a teach mode to teach addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, square root, and cube root. New Medieval Counter recently added. Keywords: Abacus, Suanpan, Soroban, Jupan, Supan, Schoty, Hand-abacus, Nepohualtzintzin. Author: bagleyd AT verizon.net (David Bagley) elf AT ee.ryerson.ca (Luis Fernandes) Maintained-by: bagleyd AT verizon.net (David Bagley) Primary-site: www.sillycycle.com /abacus/ 293 xabacus-8.7.1.tar.xz 45K xabacus.README Alternate-site: www.ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/apps/math/ 283K xabacus-7.6.8.tar.bz2 (no longer updated unfortunately) Original-site: ftp.x.org /R5contrib ftp.x.org /contrib/applications Platforms: SunOS, Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, HP-UX, AIX, VMS, Cygwin, Windows. Requires ANSI C or C++ for X or Windows, with options for Motif, Athena, and Xpm. Although it should compile "right out of the box", read the README. Not all features have been ported to Windows. Copying-policy: BSD End