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<div><h1>initial help</h1>
<div>Welcome to Macaulay2<p/>
Try entering '2+2' at your next input prompt, which begins with <tt>i</tt>. The two output prompts begin with <tt>o</tt>. The first one, with the equal sign, '=', gives the value computed from your input, and the second one, with the colon, ':', tells what type of thing the value is.<p/>
Type one of these commands to get started reading the documentation:<ul><li><span>copyright -- the copyright</span></li>
<li><span>help "Macaulay2" -- top node of the documentation.</span></li>
<li><span>help "reading the documentation" -- </span></li>
<li><span>help "getting started" -- </span></li>
<li><span>help "a first Macaulay2 session" -- </span></li>
<li><span>help x -- display the documentation for <tt>x</tt></span></li>
<li><span>? f -- display brief documentation for a function <tt>f</tt></span></li>
<li><span>printWidth = 80 -- set print width to 80 characters</span></li>
<li><span>viewHelp -- view documentation in a browser</span></li>
<li><span>viewHelp x -- view documentation on <tt>x</tt> in browser</span></li>
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To read the documentation in info form, in case you happen to be running Macaulay2 in a terminal window, replace <a href="_help.html" title="help command">help</a> by <a href="_info__Help.html" title="view online doc with info">infoHelp</a> in any of the commands above.</div>
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