Table of Contents

1. About Algae
2. Primer
3. Example Programs

3.1 Temperature Conversion
3.2 Reading and Summing Numbers
3.3 Integer Powers

4. The Algae Language

4.1 Entities
4.2 Variables

4.2.1 Variable Names
4.2.2 Evaluation of Variables
4.2.3 Scope of Variables
4.2.4 Predefined Variables

4.3 Operators

4.3.1 Function Calls
4.3.2 Element References
4.3.3 Member References
4.3.4 Transpose
4.3.5 Power
4.3.6 Not
4.3.7 Negation
4.3.8 Multiplication
4.3.9 Addition
4.3.10 Relation
4.3.11 And
4.3.12 Or
4.3.13 Short And
4.3.14 Short Or
4.3.15 Generate
4.3.16 Append
4.3.17 Assign

4.4 Expressions
4.5 Statements
4.6 Functions

5. Data
6. The Standard Functions

6.1 Basic Math
6.2 Arrays
6.3 Sets
6.4 Linear Algebra
6.5 Numerical Analysis
6.6 Basic I/O
6.7 Entity I/O
6.8 Execution
6.9 Special Tools
6.10 Miscellaneous

7. Running Algae

7.1 Startup Files
7.2 The Command Line
7.3 Errors
7.4 The algae Prompt
7.5 Signals

8. Projects
9. Bugs

9.1 Reporting Bugs
9.2 Reported Bugs

Concept Index
Function Index