Getting Started Guide with the Quaternions Package

Release 1.0
Copyright (c) 2004 by Douglas Wilhelm Harder.

Welcome to the Quaternions package. The Quaternions package is a collection of tools for using and exploring quaternions.

Requirements

Installation

Pre-installation Instructions

  1. Review the system requirements.
  2. If you have not done so already, extract all the files from the file Quaternions.zip. Chose a location for these files, and place them in that folder. These instructions assume that this location is C:\Quaternions. Substitute the actual location as needed.

Installation Instructions

  1. Copy the files Quaternions.lib, Quaternions.ind, and Quaternions.hdb from the C:\Quaternions folder, and place them inside the lib folder of your Maple installation. For example, on WindowsTM with Maple 8, this would be C:\Program Files\Maple 8\lib\.
  2. If you wish to save disk space, delete the files which were copied from the C:\Quaternions folder.

If you do not have permission to place files in the Maple 8 directory, the files may be left in their current location.

Using the Quaternions Package

  1. Start Maple.
  2. If you installed the Quaternions files inside the Maple lib directory, Maple will automatically find this package. If you installed it elsewhere, then you will need to tell Maple where to find the new package. To do this, at the prompt, enter the command
    libname := "C:\\Quaternions", libname;
    To have this package available every time you start Maple, put the preceding command in your Maple command initialization. See ?worksheet,reference,initialization for help.
  3. At the prompt, enter the command ?Quaternions to view the top-level help page.

Technical Support

If you are having difficulty installing the Quaternions package, or for all other technical support, please contact dwharder@alumni.uwaterloo.ca. For those individuals who purchased either the academic or commerical single-user licence, or faculty from departments which purchased the academic departmental licence, for a period of one year after the purchase date I will respond to emails with questions, bug reports, suggestions, feature requests, and comments.

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