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1.1       maekawa     1:
                      2:               Announcement of the Pari-2.0.BETA release
                      3:
                      4: This message is to announce the beta release of version 2.0 of the
                      5: PARI/GP system.
                      6:
                      7: For those who do not yet know, PARI/GP is a package which is aimed at
                      8: efficient computations in number theory, but also contains a large number
                      9: of other useful functions. It is somewhat related to a Computer Algebra
                     10: System, but is not really one since it treats symbolic expressions as
                     11: mathematical entities such as polynomials, series, matrices, etc..., and
                     12: not as expressions per se. However it is often much faster than other
                     13: CAS, and contains a huge number of specific functions not found
                     14: elsewhere, essentially for use in number theory.
                     15:
                     16: In addition this package is free. It can be used in an interactive shell (GP)
                     17: or as a C/C++ library (PARI). The source code (including documentation) can
                     18: be found at
                     19:
                     20:   ftp://megrez.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/pari.tar.gz
                     21:
                     22: It should compile on most UNIX systems. In any case, we provide GP binaries
                     23: for some major architectures/operating systems, including various brands of
                     24: UNIXes, DOS, OS/2, Windows 3.1, Windows 95/NT both native (if you have to)
                     25: and using Cygnus user tools (preferred), 680x0 and PowerPC Macintosh (*)...
                     26: They can be found in the subdirectories of
                     27:
                     28:   ftp://megrez.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari
                     29:
                     30: If you have more questions about PARI, you can visit
                     31:
                     32:   http://pari.home.ml.org
                     33:
                     34: or email us at
                     35:
                     36:   pari@math.u-bordeaux.fr
                     37:
                     38:     Enjoy!
                     39:
                     40: (*) This is not quite true at the time of this writing (pari-dev release).
                     41: This will hopefully be completed before the official release.
                     42: ========================================================================
                     43:
                     44: From the README file:
                     45:
                     46: The `beta' status means that a substantial amount of testing has been done,
                     47: but bugs might still be lurking in the code and the documentation might not
                     48: be absolutely accurate. Apart from this word of caution, we believe this
                     49: version is stable enough to be released for public use and for site-wide
                     50: installations.