.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- .\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps .\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection .\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) .TH CAS_HELP 1 "2017-02-08" .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. .\" .\" Some roff macros, for reference: .\" .nh disable hyphenation .\" .hy enable hyphenation .\" .ad l left justify .\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins .\" .nf disable filling .\" .fi enable filling .\" .br insert line break .\" .sp insert n+1 empty lines .\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) .SH NAME cas_help \- help for the giac/xcas computer algebra system .SH SYNOPSIS .B cas_help .RI " keyword" .br .B en_cas_help .RI " keyword" .br .B es_cas_help .RI " keyword" .br .B fr_cas_help .RI " keyword" .SH DESCRIPTION .PP .\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB\fP and .\" \fI\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics, .\" respectively. This is the help engine of the symbolic and numeric calculator \fBgiac\fP by Bernard Parisse. It is available in some different languages. .SH EXAMPLE .B cas_help gcd .TP Help for gcd: .br gcd((Intg(a) or Poly),(Intg(b) or Poly)) .br Returns the greatest common divisor of 2 polynomials of several variables or of 2 integers or of 2 rationals. .br See also: 1/ lcm 2/ euler 2/ modgcd 3/ ezgcd 4/ psrgcd 5/ heugcd 6/ Gcd .br Ex1:gcd(45,75) .br Ex2:gcd(15/7,50/9) .br Ex3:gcd(x^2-2*x+1,x^3-1) .br Ex4:gcd(t^2-2*t+1,t^2+t-2) .br Ex5:gcd((x^2-1)*(y^2-1)*z^2,x^3*y^3*z+(-(y^3))*z+x^3*z-z) .br .SH SEE ALSO \fBicas\fR(1), \fBxcas\fR(1) .SH AUTHORS \fBgiac\fR is written by Bernard Parisse. https://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/giac.html This manual page was written by Carleos Artime and Ximin Luo for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). .SH LICENSE GPLv3+