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Table of Contents
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 1
Chapter 1: First Steps ............................................................................................................................. 3
Chapter 2: Documenting Polynomial Zero Finding ........................................................................... 23
Chapter 3: The Whole and Its Parts – Subexpressions ..................................................................... 43
Chapter 4: Equations and Inequalities ................................................................................................ 63
Chapter 5: Approximate Versus Exact Computations ...................................................................... 83
Chapter 6: Sequences and Families of Curves ................................................................................... 95
Chapter 7: Investigations in Space .................................................................................................... 117
Chapter 8: What Is ‘Simple’? .............................................................................................................. 135
Chapter 9: Vectors, Matrices, and Sets ............................................................................................. 153
Chapter 10: Parametric Plots ............................................................................................................. 171
Chapter 11: Towards a Module for Analytical Geometry ............................................................... 185
Chapter 12: Some Calculus ................................................................................................................ 203
Chapter 13: More on Plotting ............................................................................................................. 221
Chapter 14: What Else Can D
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Do? ............................................................................................ 243
Learn More about D
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Appendix A: D
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Startup Options ................................................................................................ 263
Appendix B: Factory Default D
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Index ..................................................................................................................................................... 269