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package: bpolynomial v0.5 2007/12/12
author: Stephan Hennig (stephanhennig@arcor.de)


Description
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The MetaPost package bpolynomial helps drawing polynomial functions
of up to degree three.  It provides macros to calculate Bezier curves
exactly matching a given constant, linear, quadratic or cubic polynomial.
Additionally, paths of derivatives and tangents can be calculated.


Installation
------------
To install the package put the files into the following
directories in a local texmf tree and update the file
name data base.

<localtexmftree>/doc/metapost/bpolynomial:
 bpolynomial.pdf
 bpolynomial.tex
 examples.mp
 README
 CHANGES
 TODO
 
<localtexmftree>/metapost/bpolynomial:
 bpolynomial.mp


Usage Notes
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See file bpolynomial.pdf.


Happy TeXing!
Stephan Hennig