Nun

Nun (v.0.5.4) is the stable version of Papaj. It is named after the fourteenth letter of Hebrew alphabet – nun (נ). Its main improvement is the introduction of complex numbers and polynomials. Nun is the first version of the project with its current name of Papaj.

Details and features

• Name: Nun
• Version Code: 0.5.4
• Version Type: stable version
• Release Date: December 14, 2024
• Stable precedessor: Mem (v.0.5.3)
• Stable successor: will be Samech (v.0.5.5)
• Language: FreePascal
• Lines of code: 20900
• Number of functions: 571 (excluding aliases) + user-defined ones
• Maximum number of instructions: de facto no limit (depends how many of them you can put in AnsiString, which has limit of either 2,147,483,647 (32 bit) or 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 chars (64 bit))
• Number of entity types: TBA
• Number of packages: TBA
• About to be tested on:
  • systems: Windows (Win2000, Win7, Win8.1, Win10), Linux (Ubuntu 18-20, Debian 11, Mint 21, Manjaro), FreeBSD, MacOS 14.3 (Apple M1 chip)
  • architectures: i386/x86 (32 bit), amd64/x64/arm64 (64 bit)

List of confirmed changes

• support of complex numbers
• FreeBSD and MacOS support
• New vanilla functions:
  • re, im, arg
  • realroot, complexroot
• New functions for Number package:
  • minusOneTo, minusImagTo, plusImagTo, Number.imagTo
  • isReal, isComplex
• New functions for Console package:
  • CPUCurFreqs (alias for CPUCurrentFreqs)
• introduction of polynomials