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Contact:

Carlos Bazzarella Poliplus Software (519) 747-0668 email : cbazza@hookup.net

EQNVIEWER : SIMPLE AND FAMILIAR TO USE EQUATION VIEWING SOFTWARE IN JAVA FOR THE INTERNET

Waterloo, Canada - March 29, 1996 - Poliplus Software is announcing the release of 'EqnViewer' in Java for the internet.

'EqnViewer' is a simple and familiar to use equation viewing software written in Java for the Internet. With EqnViewer, WEB Pages can contain equations without the need of GIF images.

EqnViewer uses familiar notation to represent equations. The notation resembles the syntax used in hand-held calculators and other mathematical software.

Mathematical Structure is maintained allowing EqnViewer to be much more than just an equation viewing software. Poliplus Software plans to release additional software April 10/1996 that will take advantage of Java's interactive capabilities. Please stay tunned for this exciting release.

Features of EqnViewer: ----------------------

- Uses very little memory and the code size is small.

- Maintains Mathematical Structure for ease of connection to other systems.

- Graphical display of Mathematical expressions.

- Supports Greek alphabet in plain English form. Strings (Variables and Function Names) can be composed of mixed alphabets.

- Supports arithmetic operators: +,-, /, *, ^. Relations: =, <>, <, >, <=, >=, =>, ==, :=. Symbolic constants: imag, inf, pi and e.

- Functions support : supports any user supplied function such as: sin, cos, tan, asin, acos, atan, cosh, sinh, tanh, exp, etc. and draws properly the following functions : logb, abs, deg, sqrt, nroot, plusminus, and perc.

- Calculus support : Derivative, Integral, Limit (with plus and minus directions).

- Algebra support: Matrix of unlimited size, transpose function.

- Table support: Table of unlimited size.

- Finite support: sum, prod, factorial, and comb.

For more information surf to : http://www.hookup.net/~cbazza/EqnViewer.html

EqnViewer is available free of charge. We accept OEM's and License Arrangements for using this technology in other products.

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