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diff --git a/math/surf/pkg-descr b/math/surf/pkg-descr index 67800fad02fb..5a93ec0ffd46 100644 --- a/math/surf/pkg-descr +++ b/math/surf/pkg-descr @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ surf is a tool to visualize some real algebraic geometry: plane algebraic curves, algebraic surfaces and hyperplane sections of surfaces. surf is -script driven and has (optionally) a nifty GUI using the Gtk widget set. +script driven and has (optionally) a nifty GUI using the Gtk widget set. The algorithms should be stable enough not to be confused by curve/surface singularities in codimension greater than one and the degree of the surface @@ -9,6 +9,6 @@ up to 30 and surfaces of degree up to 20 successfully. However, there are examples of curves/surfaces of lower degree where surf fails to produce perfect images. This happens especially if the equation of the curve/surface is not reduced. Best results are achieved using reduced equations. On the -other hand, surf displays the Fermat-curves accurately for degree up to 98. +other hand, surf displays the Fermat-curves accurately for degree up to 98. WWW: http://surf.sourceforge.net/ |