Debian Junior Math packages

GNU bc is an interactive algebraic language with arbitrary precision which follows the POSIX 1003.2 draft standard, with several extensions including multi-character variable names, an `else' statement and full Boolean expressions. GNU bc does not require the separate GNU dc program. Home page: http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/bc.html

This is a collection of some of the text-based games and amusements that have been enjoyed for decades on unix systems.

It includes these programs: adventure, arithmetic, atc, backgammon, battlestar, bcd, boggle, caesar, canfield, countmail, cribbage, dab, go-fish, gomoku, hack, hangman, hunt, mille, monop, morse, number, pig, phantasia, pom, ppt, primes, quiz, random, rain, robots, rot13, sail, snake, tetris, trek, wargames, worm, worms, wump, wtf

This package provides a miscellaneous assortment of X applications that ship with the X Window System, including:

• atobm, bitmap, and bmtoa, tools for manipulating bitmap images;
• oclock and xclock, graphical clocks;
• xbiff, a tool which tells you when you have new email;
• xcalc, a scientific calculator desktop accessory;
• xclipboard, a tool to manage cut-and-pasted text selections;
• xconsole, which monitors system console messages;
• xcursorgen, a tool for creating X cursor files from PNGs;
• xditview, a viewer for ditroff output;
• xedit, a simple text editor for X;
• xeyes, a demo program in which a pair of eyes track the pointer;
• xgc, a graphics demo;
• xload, a monitor for the system load average;
• xlogo, a demo program that displays the X logo;
• xmag, which magnifies parts of the X screen;
• xman, a manual page browser;
• xmore, a text pager;
• xwd, a utility for taking window dumps ("screenshots") of the X session;
• xwud, a viewer for window dumps created by xwd;
• Xmark, x11perf, and x11perfcomp, tools for benchmarking graphical operations under the X Window System;

The xbiff, xcalc, xconsole and xman programs use bitmap images provided by the xbitmaps package.

XaoS allows you to zoom and pan around a fractal in real time. It can display the animated fractals in graphical or even plain text mode.

It displays the Mandelbrot set or many other fractals and allows you to zoom smoothly into the fractal. Various coloring modes are provided for both the points inside and outside the selected set. In addition, switching between Mandelbrot and Julia fractal types is provided.

Other features include autopilot mode, palette changing, image saving, fractal inversion, filters, and a built in fractal tutorial.