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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2013-12-01 22:33:23 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2013-12-01 22:33:23 +0100
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gnu: Synchronize descriptions with 'gnumaint'.
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+++ b/gnu/packages/maths.scm
@@ -50,10 +50,10 @@
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(synopsis "Conversion between thousands of scales")
(description
- "Units is a program for converting measured quantities between units of
+ "GNU Units converts between measured quantities between units of
measure. It can handle scale changes through adaptive usage of standard
-scale prefixes (i.e. micro-, kilo-, etc.). It can also handle nonlinear
-conversions such as Fahrenheit to Celcius. Its interpreter is powerful
+scale prefixes (micro-, kilo-, etc.). It can also handle nonlinear
+conversions such as Fahrenheit to Celsius. Its interpreter is powerful
enough to be used effectively as a scientific calculator.")
(license license:gpl3+)
(home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/units/")))
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ numbers.")
(arguments
`(#:configure-flags '("--with-gmp")))
(home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/")
- (synopsis "NU Linear Programming Kit, supporting the MathProg language")
+ (synopsis "GNU Linear Programming Kit, supporting the MathProg language")
(description
"GLPK is a C library for solving large-scale linear programming (LP),
mixed integer programming (MIP), and other related problems. It supports the
@@ -154,12 +154,12 @@ LP/MIP solver is included in the package.")
(home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/")
(synopsis "Statistical analysis")
(description
- "PSPP is a statistical analysis program. It can perform descriptive
-statistics, T-tests, linear regression and non-parametric tests. It features
-both a graphical interface as well as command-line input. PSPP is designed to
-interoperate with Gnumeric, LibreOffice and OpenOffice. Data can be imported
-from spreadsheets, text files and database sources and it can be output in
-text, Postscript, PDF or HTML.")
+ "GNU PSPP is a statistical analysis program. It can perform
+descriptive statistics, T-tests, linear regression and non-parametric tests.
+It features both a graphical interface as well as command-line input. PSPP is
+designed to interoperate with Gnumeric, LibreOffice and OpenOffice. Data can
+be imported from spreadsheets, text files and database sources and it can be
+output in text, PostScript, PDF or HTML.")
(license license:gpl3+)))
(define-public lapack