[Fwd: Possible contribution]

Appreciated Mr. Davis,

A couple of months ago I sent you an email about a possible contribution
to gnucap. As I've had no response since then, I assume the email did
not reach you. So I resend it to you herein.

Thanks.

-----Forwarded Message-----

> From: Orestes Mas <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Al Davis <[email protected]>
> Subject: Possible contribution
> Date: 13 Dec 2002 11:55:55 +0100
> 
> Appreciated Mr. Davis,
> 
> We're a group of researchers with the Politechnic University of 
> Catalonia, in Barcelona (Spain).
> 
> Some years ago, our group developed a piece of software, called ARIADNA, 
> intended to compute the transfer function of any (linear or linearized) 
> circuit in a semi-symbolic manner. Basically, the algorithm works by 
> finding the frequency response of the circuit in a set of (complex) 
> frequencies equally spaced over the unit circle in the complex plane, 
> and then solving a set of linear equations to find the coefficients of 
> the transfer function's numerator and denominator.
> 
> This software, originally written in FORTRAN, was later rewritten in 
> C++, so we think it would be relatively easy to merge the code with the 
> gnucap one, adding to it the ability to compute network functions.
> 
> So how do you consider it? We're relatively new to the GNU/Linux world 
> (and to the UNIX world too), and we don't master programming in this 
> environment, nor the gnucap internals, but being our software mainly a 
> calculation routine, and with major mathematical algorithms already 
> implemented in gnucap, we think this wouldn't be a very huge task if 
> we've your assistance.
> 
> Regards,

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