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Archive-name: symbolic-math/languages/ubasic/1991-02-17
Archive-directory: shape.mps.ohio-state.edu:/pub/msdos/ubasic/ [128.146.7.200]
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In article <1991Feb16.200024.11149@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> ceblair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
(Charles Blair) writes:
>
>  I've heard about a free number-theory language called U-Basic?  Could
>somebody tell me where to get it (ftp number?) and any documentation?

UBASIC is a very nice version of BASIC which I have been using for about a
year.  It is oriented toward number theory with many built in number theoretic
functions.  It comes with extensive documentation and many sample programs,
including elliptic curve factorization, and mult. poly quad. seive
factorization.

Integer precision exceeds 2000 digits.  Exact rational number arithmetic is
built in.  This is BASIC for a number theorist.  It is NOT a computer algebra
system.

UBASIC is available via anonymous ftp from wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4)
These are the Washington Univ. St. Louis archives.  The latest version is
version 8.21 located as  /mirrors/msdos/basic/ubas821.zip .  Version 8.15,
which I am currently using is there also.  Undoubtedly it is available at
a variety of other sites as well.  You will need  pkunzip (or equivalent)
to uncompress it, since it is a zip file.
-----------------------------------------
 UBASIC is written by
 Yuji Kida
 Department of Mathematics
 Faculty of Science
 Kanazawa University
 1-1 Marunouchi, Kanazawa 920, JAPAN.
 (until the end of March 1991)
 (from the beginning of April 1991)
 Department of Mathematics
 Rikkyo University
 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Tokyo 171, JAPAN.
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