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Precision

+ Abacus uses a mathematical tool called Taylor Series to determine values + as accurate as the user desires. Of course, this comes with some + performance issues with larger numbers. However, Abacus has been + tested to generate the value of e correctly to a thousand digits. +
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Configurable and Customizable

+ The very first idea for Abacus was inspired by how difficult it was + to program a TI-84 calculator. Only two languages were available, TI-BASIC + and Assembly, the latter having virtually no documentation. Determined + to be better than a TI-84, Abacus implemented a plugin system that allows + users to easily create and add plugins written in the same programming + language as Abacus itself - Java. These plugins can access the full + power of the language, and implement their own ways of handling numbers, + as well as their own functions and even operators.

+ Besides the ability to add plugins, Abacus also adds some general + options that can be used to make the user's experience more pleasant. + For instance, it allows for a computation limit to be set in order + to prevent excessively long evaluation: 8!!! is, for example, an expression + that even Wolfram Alpha doesn't compute accurately, and will never finish + on Abacus (it's simply too large). The computation limit will allow Abacus + to kill a computation if it takes too long. Support for user-definable + precision is also planned. +
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Built-in Documentation

+ Abacus plugins are given a mechanism to register documentation for + the functions that they provide. The Abacus GUI displays these + functions in a searchable list, allowing the user to read the parameters + that have to be supplied to each function, as well as learn about + its return value.

+ The search finds functions not only by their names, but also by relevant + terms mentioned in the function's description, thus allowing related + functions to be displayed together. +
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