[math4] willing to contribute to fourthgardemath

[Kalpa Welivitigoda]

Hi Edward,


On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:22, Kalpa Welivitigoda <callkalpa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda from Sri Lanka and I'm reading for my
>> degree in Electrical Engineering. I love maths and maths is highly
>> used in my studies and I though to join this project and share my
>> knowledge.
>
> Welcome.
>
>> For the moment, I am contributing to Sugar in lokalization and in
>> packaging sugar activities for Fedora.
>
> Excellent. I have a possible project for your consideration, to turn
> Ken iverson's final version of his APL programming language into a
> Sugar activity and also to package it for Fedora. Iverson taught
> primary school arithmetic once using a loaned IBM 360 with Selectric
> printing terminals, and wrote textbooks on Arithmetic, Algebra, and
> Analysis. Here is a little bit of Arithmetic.
>
>   2+3
> 5
>   i. 3
> 0 1 2
>   1+a =. i.3
> 1 2 3
>   a+/a
> 0 1 2
> 1 2 3
> 2 3 4
>
> and so on, with builtin functions for polynomials, permutations,
> solving systems of linear equations, trig, hyperbolic, exponential,
> hypergeometric functions, a derivative operator, and much more.
> Command-line, Web, and GTK versions are provided.
>
> The language, now called J, was recently put under GPL3, and the
> textbooks under Creative Commons-BY-SA. I have started to enter the
> algebra book on the Sugar Labs Replacing Textbooks server.
>
> Links:
>
> http://jsoftware.com/
>
> J downloads, docs, mailing lists
>
> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/make-your-own-sugar-activities/_edit/
> As it says
>
> http://booki.treehouse.su/algebra-an-algorithmic-treatment/
>
> I will create a J version of all of the Math4Team content.
>
>> So if there's any way I can contribute to Math4Team I highly appreciate.
>
> Likewise.
>

Thanks a lot for your detailed reply. I spent my leisure these days to
complete Sinhala lokalization in Sugar, as it is about to freeze for
the next release.

So I'll look into your links and see what I can do there after the
lokalization is over.


>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> --
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda
>> http://about.me/callkalpa
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>>
>
>
>
> --
> Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin
> Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation.
> The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
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>



-- 
Best Regards,

Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda
http://about.me/callkalpa