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     º      VPCalc - Variable Precision floating decimal calculator      º
     º         Version 2.30, last revised: 1993-10-15, 1600 hours        º
     º         Copyright (c) 1981-1993 by author: Harry J. Smith,        º
     º   19628 Via Monte Dr., Saratoga, CA 95070.  All rights reserved.  º
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VPCalc is a calculator program with the following features:

	Variable precision to thousands of decimal places
	Transcendental functions
	Hyperbolic functions
	Greatest Common Divisor function
	Boolean functions
	Random number generator
	Algebraic notation (not reverse polish)
	If-then-else statement
	Goto statement
	Can run VPCalc code from file
	Hot Help from F1 key
	Written in Object-Oriented Turbo Pascal 5.5/6.0
        Recommended by Dr. Clifford A. Pickover's in his books
        COMPUTERS AND THE IMAGINATION page 380, and
        MAZES FOR THE MIND pages 388 and 412.


File name    | What it is for (Files on distribution disk)
-------------|------------------------------------------------------------------
!       .    | Information on version
AutoExec.VPC | VPCalc startup commands file
B       .VPC | VPCalc code file sets up a = -Big, b = Big, c = Small, d = -Small
B       .VPN | Big constant, can be read by VPCalc I command
Code    .VPC | VPCalc code file to test VPCalc's J command
Code2   .VPC | VPCalc code file to test VPCalc's J command
e       .VPC | VPCalc code file, computes e to over 10000 decimal digits
e       .VPN | Constant e, can be read by VPCalc I command
Echo    .VPC | VPCalc code file to test Echo, Rem and Pause commands
Fac     .VPC | VPCalc code file, tests code file processing by computing N!
FastFib .VPC | VPCalc code file, computes Fibonacci numbers using a fast formula
Go      .Bat | Execute this if you forget all else
Ln10    .VPC | VPCalc code file, computes Ln(10) to over 10000 decimal digits
Ln10    .VPN | Constant Log base e of 10, required by VPCalc.Exe
Ln2     .VPN | Constant Log base e of 2, can be read by VPCalc I command
LogE    .VPN | Constant Log base 10 of e, can be read by VPCalc I command
N!      .VPC | VPCalc code file computes an approximation to N! for large N
Pi      .VPN | Constant Pi to  10003 decimal places, required by VPCalc.Exe
READ-ME .    | Information for legal ownership
Test    .VPC | VPCalc code file, tests GoTo and GoUpTo label
VPCalc  .Doc | Online documentation for VPCalc
VPCalc  .Exe | Variable Precision floating decimal calculator
VPCalc  .Ico | MS Windows icon for VPCalc
VPCalc  .PIF | MS Windows PIF file for VPCalc
WhatFor .    | This file, volume table of contents for the operational disk
WriteFac.Bat | DOS batch file to run WriteFac.VPC
WriteFac.VPC | VPCalc code file, tests the Write and WriteLn Procedures of
             |   VPCalc by printing a table of factorials

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Uploaded by Harry J. Smith   hjsmith@ix.netcom.com   hjsmith@aol.com