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                                  SyMan
                                Roy Wood
                          Silicon Angst Software
                           122 Britannia Avenue
                              London, Ontario
                              CANADA N6H 2J5
                              (416) 694-5927

   SyMan is a simple symbolic manipulator for the Macintosh.  Its focus is
on high school level algebra.  The accompanying documentation includes a
series of lessons that take the user through most of the features of the
program.  The topics of the lessons include solving linear equations,
graphing rational functions, solving systems of linear equations,
factoring polynomials, solving quadratic equations, completing the square,
sine curves (amplitude, period, phase shift, translations), and
transformations of functions.  Some of the menu selections are simplify,
collect, expand, reduce, factor, switch order, and substitute.  Graphing
ranges from graphing points satisfying equations to drawing lines by
freehand.  There is a zoom feature for the graphing.

   There is also, in keeping with the current interest in iterating
functions, a main menu selection for iteration, with options to iterate on
two variables, four variables, compute the orbit diagram and compute a Julia
set.  Each of these allows for the user to modify the parameters and
functions involved.

   There is a 15 page user manual in Word format in addition to the lessons.

   The program was tested on a PowerMac with no difficulty running.

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Location in Mathematics Archives:
     Anonymous FTP:
        /mac/collegeAlgebra
        /mac/precalculus

     Gopher:
       (First select "Software" then "Macintosh software arranged
        by subjects")
        College Algebra / SyMan (Symbolic Manipulator)
        Precalculus / SyMan (Symbolic Manipulator)

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