[math4] willing to contribute to fourthgardemath

[Edward Cherlin]

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:58, Kalpa Welivitigoda <callkalpa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Wonderful. I'll pass this news on to my Sinhalese contacts.

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

Perfect.

>>> 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.
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
> Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda
> http://about.me/callkalpa
>



-- 
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.
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks