Welcome to Macaulay 2
Try entering '2+2' at your next input prompt, which begins with
i. The two output prompts begin with
o. The first one, with the equal sign, '=', gives the value computed from your input, and the second one, with the colon, ':', tells what type of thing the value is.
Type one of these commands to get started reading the documentation:
- copyright -- the copyright
- help "Macaulay 2" -- top node of the documentation.
- help "reading the documentation" --
- help "getting started" --
- help "a first Macaulay 2 session" --
- help x -- display the documentation for x
- printWidth = 80 -- set print width to 80 characters
- viewHelp -- view documentation in a browser
- viewHelp x -- view documentation on x in browser
To read the documentation in info form, in case you happen to be running Macaulay 2 in a terminal window, replace
help by
infoHelp in any of the commands above.