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*                                 FBMATH                                     *
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*                    MATHEMATICAL LIBRARY FOR FREEBASIC                      *
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*                        Version 0.55 (August 2010)                          *
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                           AUTHOR : Dr Jean DEBORD

               Laboratoire de Pharmacologie, Faculte de Medecine
               2 Rue du Docteur Marcland, 87025 Limoges (France)
                            debord.jean@wanadoo.fr
                            jean.debord@unilim.fr


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 This library is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 License (LGPL). See file LGPL.TXT for details.
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INTRODUCTION
============

The FreeBasic Math library (FBMath) is a mathematical library for the FreeBasic
compiler. It is entirely written in FreeBasic and does not depend on external
libraries. FBMath provides routines and demo programs for numerical analysis,
including mathematical functions, probabilities, matrices, linear and nonlinear
equations, optimization, integration, Fast Fourier Transforms, random numbers,
statistics and graphics.

The FB version of Sjoerd J. Schaper's Large Integer library is distributed
with FBMath. The full version (for FB/QB/PDS/VB/VBDOS) is available at:
http://largeint.sourceforge.net/

CONTENTS
========

Main directory
--------------

FBMATH.TXT    : This file
CHANGES.TXT   : Changes from previous version
LGPL.TXT      : License

LIBFBMATH.A   : Precompiled FBMath library for Windows
FBMATH.BI     : Include file for FBMath
FBMATH.PDF    : Documentation of FBMath in PDF format

LIBLARGEINT.A : Precompiled Large Integer library for Windows
LARGEINT.BI   : Include file for the Large Integer library

MODULES directory
-----------------

Source files of the library.

DEMO directory
--------------

Source of demo programs.


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
===================

* PC computer with Windows or Linux and FreeBasic version 0.20b or higher

* Compatibility with FB/DOS is only partial at this time.


INSTALLATION
============

1) Unzip the archive in a given directory.

2) To compile the demo programs, you can run the batch file COMPIL.BAT
   located in the DEMO subdirectory.

   Notes:

   (a) You may have to change the path to the compiler in the batch file.
       Default is C:\FreeBasic

   (b) The batch file will install the library files and the include files

3) If you skip step (2), you will have to install the libraries manually:

   (a) Copy the library files (*.a) to the FreeBasic LIB subdirectory,
       e.g. C:\FreeBasic\lib\win32

   (b) Copy the include files (*.bi) to the FreeBasic INCLUDE subdirectory,
       e.g. C:\FreeBasic\inc

4) If you need to recompile the library, run the batch file in the MODULES
   subdirectory. You may have to change the path to the compiler here, too.


WEB LINKS
=========

FBMath home page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fbmath/

FBMath Mailing list:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fbmathlib/

FreeBasic forum:
http://www.freebasic.net/forum/
