KANT/KASH tutorial
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Sylla Lesseni

KANT is a sophisticated computer algebra system for computing in algebraic number fields,
algebraic function fields and in local fields. It consists of a C-library of thousands of
functions for doing arithmetic in these fields. Of course, the necessary auxiliaries from
linear algebra over rings, especially lattices, are also included. The KANT functions are
accessible through a user-friendly shell named KASH that is freely available. This shell
enables the user to handle the number theoretical objects in the very same way as one
would do using pencil and paper.

In this tutorial, we will give an introduction to the KANT system. We will see how to
use the system in several applications. Also, we will introduce some basic programming 
constructs of the KANT programming language.

The final part of the tutorial will introduce the KANT SCSCP (Symbolic Computation 
Software Composability Protocol) package named autokash-3.1. This package allow the KANT
system to work as SCSCP server and client using the TCP/IP protocol for communication.
We will show how to run the server through the KANT/KASH daemon named kashd.
Also, We will give some demos of communication to the running server via telnet or using
the KANT SCSCP client shell kapy.
The package autokash-3.1 is freely available from 
http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~kant/kantscscp.htm.