ANNOUNCE: GENIUS 1.0.20 the "Iconic ERF" release

[Jiri Lebl <jirka 5z com>]

Genius is a general purpose calculator with many advanced capabilities.
To find out more go to:
http://www.jirka.org/genius.html

A couple of bugfixes and minor improvements have accumulated.  The main
reason to make the release is that it should now compile with GCC 5
hopefully.  There are new icons too, including scalable.

In any case, Genius is one of the oldest GNOME projects going back to late
1997.  It was the original GNOME calculator before I got wild ideas about it
doing absolutely everything.  It is programmable, has a powerful language and
handles many fun features including support for matrices, rational numbers,
and nice 2D and 3D plotting.  The GUI version requires GNOME2 (at least glib2
if you don't want a GUI) a recent enough GMP library and the MPFR library.
You can still use the command line version if you prefer non-gui interface.

Here are the news in 1.0.20:

* Add more sizes of icons including SVG, and add Keywords to the .desktop file
* Documentation updates
* Fix PeriodicExtension function
* ErrorFunction (erf) is using MPFR for real values so it is far more precise
  and faster
* The Fourier series example is no longer using a hand coded graph and hand
  computed series, so it can now be easily modified to show series for
  different functions
* Fix GCC 5 compilation
* A couple of minor fixes in the plotting code including one possible crasher
* Translation updates (Wolfgang Stöggl, Marek Černocký, Maria Mavridou,
  Мирослав Николић, Miguel Rodríguez Núñez, Daniel Mustieles, Piotr Drag,
  Rafael Ferreira)

* During making of these changes the author (Jiri) was partially supported by
  NSF grant DMS 1362337 and the Oklahoma State University

http://download.gnome.org/sources/genius/1.0/
ftp://ftp.5z.com/pub/genius/
http://www.jirka.org/genius.html

Genius is in Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, GARNOME, OpenSUSE, and probably other
distribution repositories, so check those.  Usually you want to install two
packages: genius and gnome-genius (perhaps also gnome-common on some
distros).  Of course, it will be a little bit before this version hits those
servers ...

Have fun,

Jiri

-- 
Jiri (George) Lebl, http://math.okstate.edu/people/lebl/ or
http://www.jirka.org/