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Below is a collection of sample Frink programs.
You can also download all of these sample programs in a single zipfile, FrinkSamples.zip
| baseball | Calculates trajectory of a baseball. |
| bert | Calculates the probability of two first names appearing in the same movie. |
| ChineseNumbers | Formats integers into their Chinese equivalents (formal and casual) |
| classtest | A sample of object-oriented programming; demonstrates writing and using a class specification. |
| CoordinateConversions | Converts latitude and longitude to and from UTM coordinates. |
| Datum | A data structure used to represent the ellipsoidal shape of the earth, used in various navigation routines. |
| daylight | Calculates duration of daylight over the course of a year. |
| elements | A basic periodic table of the elements. |
| erf | Functions for statistics including the forward and inverse error function, the normal distribution, etc. |
| Fourier | Routines for discrete and fast Fourier transforms (FFT) of data. |
| hints | Provides hints and help for common errors in Frink calculations. |
| holeearthfullgradient | Calculates time to fall through a hole in the center of the earth with realistic model of densities. |
| holeearthgradient | Calculates time to fall through a hole in the center of the earth with overly-simplistic model of densities. |
| holeearthuniform | Calculates time to fall through a hole in the center of the earth with naïve uniform density model. |
| homonyms | Finds homophones of words. |
| HTMLUtils | Utilities for processing HTML. |
| JacobiSymbol | Functions for calculating the Jacobi symbol and Legendre symbol. |
| JVMinfo | Displays the properties of your Java Virtual Machine. Demonstrates use of Java Introspection. |
| LucasLehmer | Implements the Lucas-Lehmer test for proving primality of Mersenne primes. |
| mandelbrot | Draws a Mandelbrot set in plain text. |
| mithengecorridor | Data for the Infinite Corridor at MIT. |
| mithengemoon | Calculates moon alignments with MIT's Infinite Corridor. |
| mithengesun | Calculates sun alignments in MIT's Infinite Corridor. |
| navigation | A library of high-precision calculations for navigating on the earth. |
| palindromicNumbers | Finds palindromic numbers by the "reverse and add" method. |
| planets | A library to calculate the positions of the the planets to high accuracy using the VSOP87 theory. |
| pollardP-1 | An implementation of the Pollard p-1 factoring algorithm. |
| RiemannZeta | Calculates values of the Riemann Zeta function. |
| siderealtime | Calculates Greenwich Mean Sidereal Time. |
| sieve | Sieve of Eratosthenes to find prime numbers. |
| simplegraph | An simple but interesting program that uses interval arithmetic to plot equations. |
| StandardAtmosphere | A class which implements the U.S. Standard Atmosphere of 1976. This allows calculation of pressure, temperature, air density, speed of sound, etc. at varying altitudes. |
| StandardAtmosphereTest | Contains examples of doing standard atmosphere calculations. |
| stock | Fetches stock prices from the internet. |
| sun | A massive library of astronomical calculations to find positions of the sun, moon, and other calculations. |
| sunplot | Creates data to plot the location of the sun for an entire year. |
| sunrise | Calculates times of sunrise, sunset, and twilights. |
| trigram | Program to find the most frequent n-letter patterns in words. |
| webspider | Simple program to find all of the links in an HTML page. |
| wheelgame3 | Simulator to find optimum play for the big-wheel-spinnin' "Showcase Showdown" game on The Price Is Right |
| WilliamsPPlus1 | Factorization using the Williams p+1 factorization method. |
| xmldump | Demonstrates dumping units in an XML format. |
| ziplocator | Locates latitude and longitude of U.S. zip codes (requires data file) |
Descriptions of the following programs will be added later:
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