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                              o  Elem 1.0+ o
                              o  By Kaid   o
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 Introduction
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  Elem is a "database" on the periodic table elements.
  Each element has a card with its name, its symbol,its atomic mass and its
  atomic number.
  You can see all the cards, search an element by its symbol or by its name.


 How to use
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  Here the four choices of Elem's menu. (Use up and down arrows to move the 
  cursor and [ENTER] to validate.)

    o Search by symbol   
    o Search by name
       Put the symbol or the name of an element. [DEL] to delete a character,
       [ENTER] to begin the search and [EXIT] to return to menu.


    o See all elements
       Use up and down arrows to go to the next/previous element. The left arrow
       go to the first element and the right arrow go to the last one.
       [EXIT] return to menu.

    o Exit
       Return to shell.


 More ...
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  o Atomic mass are round to 0.01.
  o Elem contains elements 1 to 94 (except from 58 to 71).
  o Method of data storage:
      o Symbol                                     (1 word) 
      o Name + '\0'                                     (?) 
      o Atomic mass: Integer part                  (1 byte) 
      o Atomic mass: Decimal part                  (1 byte) 
         If the last bit is set (+128), the element
         is after Lanthanum in the classification.


 Credits
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  o Dan Englender to help me for the Ti-83+ version.
  o David Chotin and Jonathan to report the bug (See History).
  o Mattias Lindqvist and Dines Justesen fot their documentation on the Ti-82.



 History
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  v1.0    - 17/09/99
           First release based on version 2.0 for Ti-82/Ti-85.

  v1.0+   - 23/09/99
           Ti-83+ version added.

  v1.0+ B - 03/11/99
           You can't shutdown your Ti-83 from Elem, so you can't crash your calculator. 


 Disclaimer
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 I'm not responsible for anything that happens to your Ti-83, to your computer
 or to you.


 Requirements (Ti-83)
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  Ion (Tested with version 1.1 and ROM 1.10).
  1916 bytes free.


 Code
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  You can use a part of Elem's code to build your program. But in this case,
  put my name and my e-mail.
  On the other hand, you're not allowed to distribute a modified version of
  Elem without my permission.


 Contact
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  Bug, suggestion, review or encouragement ? Send-me an e-mail at this
  address: kaid@excite.fr (or kaid@altern.org).
