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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. In the future, we
expect to add a few more useful science and math oriented libraries.

Please note, despite the 1.x version number, this is still a bit of a nascent
release, as 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. With any luck some of you will find
the project useful enough to offer a little time to help us polisih it up.

Thanks and enjoy,

Trans and Peter

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Version	Path
stick-1.3.0	RELEASE