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Genius reaches 1.0.0

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One of the oldest GNOME projects, the Genius calculator reaches 1.0.0 after 10 years in development. I have previously said that Genius is not going to be 1.0 until it can compute eigenvalues for general matrices. Now with RayleighQuotientIteration function, this is partially satisfied. Anyway, this was the original GNOME desktop calculator appearing first time as part of GNOME in the GNOME v0.11 tarball in January 1998. It was later split out of GNOME and has had its own release schedule since. A replacement for it on the desktop was the horrible desktop calculator widget for libgnomeui (see GNOME 1.x libraries for this and much more braindamage, but I was responsible for this particular one), but that is another story. Genius can nowdays rival programs like Maple, Mathematica, Octave/Matlab in certain areas. However, it is not a replacement for any of them. It is still usable as a desktop calculator and has a negligible learning curve. See the Genius web page for more information and downloads.

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I didn't notice I wasn't logged in to submit the story, but I suppose "Anonymous George" is actually appropriate.

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