`polynom' is an R collection of functions to implement a class for
univariate polynomial manipulations, and is Copyright (C) 1998 by Kurt
Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>.  It is based on the corresponding
S package by Bill Venables <Bill.Venables@adelaide.edu.au>, and was
adapted to R by KH and Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>.

`polynom' is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
later version.

`polynom' is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
for more details.

A copy of the GNU General Public License is available on the World Wide
Web at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.  You can also obtain it by
writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge,
MA 02139, USA.


See the file `NOTES' for a brief introduction into the functionality of
this package.

Please send remarks, comments ... to KH.

KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at> 1998/02/24
