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- ITERANT is a simple and powerful graphical tool for the exploration of
- various mathematical curiosities such as bifurcations, stability
- of iterated equations, etc. I have written ITERANT in the Basic
- language (specifically QuickBasic version 4.5). It took me roughly
- half an hour to write the program you see before you, and I wrote it
- mainly for the fun of it. I didnt use fortran since there is no real
- standard way of using graphics within it on PC's. C is out of the
- question, being more of a job security tool (IMO) than a
- useful language (I use it and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth, but
- then who says I should program with my tongue ;-> sideways smiley).
- Pascal is practically worthless for numerical work.
-
- I place ITERANT entirely within the public domain. It may be
- freely copied and distributed, so long as no fee (except for a diskette
- mailer and stamps) is charged. (eg If anyone should receive remuneration
- for this program it is me, and not some PD disk warehouse, or similar).
- This program is distributable with 2 conditions. First: All the
- original contents of the ZIPped file must remain intact. That is do
- not alter the distribution file, send it as you received it. Second:
- If anyone uses this software for any purpose that eventually winds up in
- a journal, magazine, newspaper, etc., I expect that the program and author
- (eg me) will be properly cited. Software means either the compiled
- executeable code, or any of the source code).
- If I may be so bold as to coin a phrase, I would like to call this
- EDUWARE. I also urge fellow students in the physical sciences (the only
- real sciences...) to contribute their programming efforts to this
- ideal, that eduactional/fun software ought to be free, and simple to play
- with/change.
-
- Joe Landman 4/18/91
- Physics Bldg, Wayne State University,
- 666 Hancock Avenue,
- Detroit, MI 48202
- userzv50@mts.cc.wayne.edu