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23/5/1995.  27.07.96,  03.11.96


Programs package, by Don McDonald.     "ProgramsPD".

Upload to 'The Bridge' BBS, Mt Victoria, Wellington N.Z.


Unpack with PackDir, available from BBS.

  (If compressed set type of archive to PackDDir.

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(63/5 Hut chi son Rd, Wellington2, New Zealand. PH:  64 +4 + 389 6820.)




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CSD  .pgms.programspd


20/80   (Basic)

Calculate odds of lower tier lottery prizes,

Lotto 6/40, Keno 20/80, etc.


a2p-0   (Basic)

Factorise Mersenne (Prime?) numbers.


a2p999  (Basic)

 Factorise Generalised Mersenne nos., a^p+-b^n, base 1000.



Abundaint  (BASIC).

   Artificial intelligence A.I. numbers program.

   You can ask for Primes, Perfects, Odds, Squares,

   (or SquareFrees), Abundants, Multiperfects, (Booleans),

   and starting anywhere.



ANALOGX   (Basic)

 Analogue and digital clock.  Sweep Second hand. Time adjust.


BirthRanLi.   BirthWhite  Birthtext   (Basic.)

   Personalised Birthday Cake/Card.

   Teletext colour graphics. BBC Basic 2. !Host 65 or Bas V.

    Enter  first name, age, day.month. Maximum 30 items of data.

   "B'day" standard.  Randomises & repeats the order of lines of data.



BodyMsIndx  (BASIC).

   Your Healthy weight.

   'Body Mass index' is the ratio  kilogrammes wt/ metres tall squared.

   If your BMI is above 25 number, you could be overweight.

   Flexible input including stones, lbs, kgs, feet, inches, cm,

   metres, (mixed.)  Numerical and graphical display.


CDSTAR01  (Basic)

 Civil Defence "star" logo.


CR290DA   (Data)

Data file for Program SelfTst..

Data concepts, Intro Business Computing course.




Descript/  Descript1.  (text)

   Descript is this file that you may be reading now.

   It describes the programs and text files in ProgramsPD.


descript1


DISPFIL  (Basic)

 Display contents of file.  Integers, Reals, Strings.



EGGS (Basic)

Graphical simulation of oval shape, Acorn, eye,

balloon, flame, etc.


EgyptianF   (Basic)

Egyptian fractions

(math representations as sums of unit fractions, 1/n.)



EVENTSV ..  events etc..  (basic)

 "Brick wall" diary of calendar/church events.

 Print address labels, etc.



FACTOR6  (BASIC.)

   Factorise an integer or numeric expression,

   reducing to a positive integer (max greater than 2E9).

   Into prime factors, including repeat prime factors.


FACTORS   (Basic)


BigNum.facthcff  (BASIC 64.)

	factorise integers bigger than 2E9. (5 byte reals, etc.)

	includes sample numbers.


Help1  (Text 10k).

   Text help for calculator program SeriCalc3./SeriCalc4.




ILIKEPI  (text.)

   Article on calculating pi to 15 decimal places, e.g. circle arc series.

   Mnemonics, References.


Ken20dd80  (Basic)

Calculate odds and returns (~60 %) of all NZ Keno 20/80 groups.



KEPLER3  (Basic)

Show (circular) orbits of several/selected solar system planets.


LINREGTEXT  (Text)

Article about linear regression program "PLOTPref".


MNPHASWGTN   (Basic)

Moon Phases from Wellington, New Zealand.  Illustration.


MONEIL3   (Basic)

R-th root scaled (non-linear) graphs of road toll, deaths, injuries

(dissimilar scales, friendly numbers on axes.)



PI314  (BASIC VI, etc.)

   Calculate pi, as done by Isaac Newton and similarly by Don McDonald.

   (Min. 15 decimal places.)


PLOTPREF  (Basic)

Linear regression plot y- against- x, preferred numbers on axes.

Scatter plot, fit straight line, equation, predicted, residuals.


POWER  (Basic.)

Solve Fermats Last Theorem(?).  ABC Conjecture.

x^a + y^b = z^c.


PrimeCabi  (BASIC.)

   Find factors up to 92,681 = SQR(2^33.) of ..

   Test vast numbers e.g. 2E18     and higher

   (Worlds largest known prime nos.)

   or  c * a^b +i,   where  c,a,b, (-)i < 2E9.



PRIMEPRTV1     (Basic)

Number Theory program.  Calculate 'primitive roots' of primes.


Primes  (BASIC).

   Primes and count primes. Starting anywhere.

   Input number or expression.




"Profile"  (BASIC.)

   Find personal properties of integers, including square,

   square root, log, sum of squares, factors, reciprocal,

   ctd fraction.  Starting anywhere and continuing successively.



PrtvRoots  (Basic)

Primitive roots, number theory.


PTOCALC  (BBC BASIC 2.)

Printout Calculator for BBC model-B Micro.

(Archimedes use SeriCalc4, far developed.)



SELFTSTbst  (Basic)

SelfTest (Best), learning quiz program.

Books of Bible,  Data concepts,  type in, store.

Prompt Question?  Answer xxx.

One mark for each correct letter (CAPS).

Repeat, review, scoreboard, learn, test, speed, etc.


SeriCalc3  (BASIC V, VI.)

   Math calculator,  40 functions.

   Combinations, primes, printout, divisors, abundants,

   number-theory, DIV-MODs, base conversions, comma 000,

   Poisson distribution, continued fractions, powers, etc.



SERICalC4  (Basic)

Latest Sep 1996 scientific mathematical combination

number theory calculator. Optional printout/ task edit.



SHEMASDAN  (BASIC).

   S.outhern He.misphere M.oon a.t S.unset, D.ays A.fter N.ew.

   Phase and position of Moon, Altitude- Azimuth.

   New, Crescent, Quarter, Gibbous, Full.  (Mode 0 graphical disp.)



SIEV7/8911  (Basic)

Primes [option Factors] up to 900 million, Archimedes.

Store to disk (option).  Sieve.  Setup.  Start anywhere.

See Beeblet,  newsletter BBC/ Acorn Computer User Group NZ Inc.


SpCLOCKAr  (Text.  spooled)

   Article on Modular (clock/ remainder) arithmetic.

   Used in mathematics for proving large prime numbers.  Factors.



SPTEMP  (Data?)

For programs SelfTst, DispFil.


STARCLU02    (Basic)

Dynamical simulation of whirligig orbits of globular star cluster,

25 x 1 solar mass stars.  Colour graphic simulation.


storeconst (Basic)

Calculator.  E.g. C.onstant(314) = PI = 3.14,159...



SUNSTAR  (Basic)

Random sun plot.  Yellow stars on blue sky.  (compare dandelions)

Enter birthdate, random number, name.  Star pattern.


TENNIS  (Basic 2)

Championship tennis scoreboard. Analysis of service strengths etc.

Writeup in Beeblet paper magazine.  (Chris Lewis).


testoscli1   (Basic)

Test operating system command line.

Change directories, load objects.

Compare !Interword, friendly loading and saving.


TypEnvp9cm   (Basic)

Type envelopes,  Typewriter.

Line by line type out, indent, address envelopes, etc.


WIPER1   (Basic)


WIPERS   (Basic)

Rain on windscreen. 2 programs.  Colour, rivulets, coalesce, wind..


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