1.2 Notation
In this manual, we shall use several notations, which is described here
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The name of a function is written in a
typewriter
type
gcd()
, gr()
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For the description of a function, its argument is written in a
slanted type.
int, poly
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A file name is written in a ‘typewriter type with single quotes’
‘dbxinit’, ‘asir_plot’
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An example is indented and written in a
typewriter
type.
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References are made by a
typewriter type bracketed by []
.
[Boehm,Weiser]
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Arguments (actual parameters) of a function are optional when they are
bracketed by
[]
’s.
The repeatable items (including non-existence of the item)
are bracketed by []*
’s.
setprec([n])
, diff(rat[,varn]*)
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The prompt from the shell (csh) is denoted, as it is, by
%
.
The prompt, however, is denoted by #
, when you are assumed
to be working as the root, for example, at the installation.
| % cat afo
afo
bfo
% su
Password:XXXX
# cp asir /usr/local/bin
# exit
%
|
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The rational integer ring is denoted by Z, the rational number field
by Q, the real number field by R, and the complex number field by
C.
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