This document describes the functions that are useful in the context of using MathPiper as an end user. This document should get you started programming in MathPiper. There are some basic explanations and hands-on tutorials. This is the second part of the MathPiper function reference. This reference explains functions that are used in the MathPiper source code that is underneath what the user sees. The documentation in this section is thus mostly useful to people who are maintaining MathPiper. This book is a detailed description of the algorithms used in the MathPiper system for exact symbolic and arbitrary-precision numerical computations. Very few of these algorithms are new, and most are well-known. The goal of this book is to become a compendium of all relevant issues of design and implementation of these algorithms. This document gives a short introduction to MathPiper. Included is a brief tutorial on the syntax and some commands to get you started using MathPiper. There are also some examples. This is a book of essays on MathPiper. It covers various topics, from using the MathPiper system for specific calculations to general issues related to the MathPiper system development and maintenance. |