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New features, and short break



New Features:
Dr(.) Genius now does primality testing and factorization!
Try: IsPrime(n)
(for n a large number)
or Factorize(200!)
for some examples!
In particular, it can tell if any number up to 25 000 000 000 is
prime, and factor any number all of whose factors are <= 5 000 (yes,
factorization is lagging behind primality testing).
In particular it can factor any number up to 25 000 000.

This should be enough for anyone below the advanced undergraduate
level. There's 3-4 more factorization algorithms and 1-2 more
primality tests (and primality certification), and then we'll be at
the state of the art, c. 1990.
Also planned is support for factoring gaussian integers (complex
numbers both of whose coefficients are integers) and a few other
cases. This should be enough for anything below number theory research.

Also, school work will be pretty intense for the next two months, as I
am writing a senior honors thesis.
Thus, I won't be able to work on drgenius again until april.
The /doc and /lib trees both compile without errors (now), so they
should be okay.
I'll still be around on drgenius-dev, though probably not as active.
Sorry about the current state of documentation -- about 10-20 hours of
work and it should be reasonably usable.
Also, I just got accepted at a graduate school in math (University of
Chicago), so I'm currently rather happy.

-- 
Bye for now-
  -nils