[GAP Forum] GAP package RadiRoot

[Edmund Robertson]

Dear GAP Forum,

I announce, with great pleasure, that the RadiRoot package by Andreas 
Distler has been accepted as a refereed GAP package and is available 
for download from the GAP Web site.

The following description of the functionality of the package is 
taken form that site.

The RadiRoot package can compute and display an expression by 
radicals for the roots of a solvable, rational polynomial. Related to 
this it is possible to create the Galois group and the splitting 
field of a rational polynomial. The package is written for GAP 
version 4.4. It requires the package Alnuth and can therefore be used 
on a UNIX system only. Beside this the external programs 'LaTex' and 
'xdvi' are needed.

Edmund Roberson

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Professor E F Robertson
Chairman GAP Council
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebra
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Mathematical Institute
University of St Andrews
St Andrews  KY16 9SS
Scotland

Email: edmund at mcs.st-and.ac.uk
Tel:  +44 (0)1334 463743
Fax: +44 (0)1334 463748

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