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Help in PARI

? ?
Help topics:
  0: list of user-defined identifiers (variable, alias, function)
  1: Standard monadic or dyadic OPERATORS
  2: CONVERSIONS and similar elementary functions
  3: TRANSCENDENTAL functions
  4: NUMBER THEORETICAL functions
  5: Functions related to ELLIPTIC CURVES
  6: Functions related to general NUMBER FIELDS
  7: POLYNOMIALS and power series
  8: Vectors, matrices, LINEAR ALGEBRA and sets
  9: SUMS, products, integrals and similar functions
 10: GRAPHIC functions
 11: PROGRAMMING under GP
 12: The PARI community

Further help (list of relevant functions): ?n (1<=n<=11).
Also:
  ? functionname (short on-line help)
  ?\             (keyboard shortcuts)
  ?.             (member functions)
Extended help looks available:
  ??             (opens the full user's manual in a dvi previewer)
  ??  tutorial   (same with the GP tutorial)
  ??  refcard    (same with the GP reference card)

  ??  keyword    (long help text about "keyword" from the user's manual)
  ??? keyword    (a propos: list of related functions).
? ?4

addprimes     bestappr      bezout        bezoutres     bigomega
binomial      chinese       content       contfrac      contfracpnqn
core          coredisc      dirdiv        direuler      dirmul
divisors      eulerphi      factor        factorback    factorcantor
factorff      factorial     factorint     factormod     ffinit
fibonacci     gcd           hilbert       isfundamental isprime
ispseudoprime issquare      issquarefree  kronecker     lcm
moebius       nextprime     numdiv        omega         precprime
prime         primes        qfbclassno    qfbcompraw    qfbhclassno
qfbnucomp     qfbnupow      qfbpowraw     qfbprimeform  qfbred
quadclassunit quaddisc      quadgen       quadhilbert   quadpoly
quadray       quadregulator quadunit      removeprimes  sigma
sqrtint       znlog         znorder       znprimroot    znstar

? ?gcd
gcd(x,y,{flag=0}): greatest common divisor of x and y. flag is optional, and 
can be 0: default, 1: use the modular gcd algorithm (x and y must be 
polynomials), 2 use the subresultant algorithm (x and y must be polynomials).

? ??gcd
\\ if set up correctly, brings up the typeset section from the manual on gcd

We will discuss writing more complicated PARI programs on October 10.



William A Stein 2001-09-17