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I am happy to finally announce the initial public release of Stick,
the Scientific Code Kit for Ruby.

  http://stick.rubyforge.org

Stick is a spin-off of Facets, based on the most excellent units.rb
library by Peter Vanbroekhoven. units.rb, and its cousin currency.rb,
provide a very poweful system for working with typed values in a very
Ruby-esque way. For example:

  10.m / 10.s             #=> 1 m/s
  1.bit/s + 8.bytes/s     #=> 65.0 bit/s
  1.mile.to(feet)         #=> 5280.0 feet
  1.acre.to(yd**2)        #=> 4840.0 yd**2

In addition, the library contains a large collection of natural constants,
based on the original work of Daniel Carrera and Brian Gough; plus
Cosmin Bonchis' extensions to the Matrix class.

The goal of this project is to provide a valuable resource for science
and math oriented developers who like to use Ruby. We fully expect to add
more useful science and math oriented libraries in the future. If you have
any libraries that you feel would make a good fit, please let us know.

NOTE: Despite the 1.x version number, some functionality still needs
address. In particular the *typed* constants and currency conversions are
not yet fully functional. But the rest of the library works well. If any of
you will find the library useful please consider donating a little time to
help us polish it up.

Thanks and enjoy,

Trans and Peter

Version data entries

3 entries across 3 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
stick-1.3.1	RELEASE
stick-1.3.2	RELEASE
stick-1.3.3	RELEASE