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-.TH ginsh 1 "October, 1999" "GiNaC"
+.TH ginsh 1 "January, 2000" "GiNaC"
 .SH NAME
 ginsh \- GiNaC Interactive Shell
 .SH SYNPOSIS
@@ -36,9 +36,14 @@ expressions on one line. Whitespace (spaces, tabs, newlines) can be applied
 freely between tokens. To quit ginsh, enter
 .BR quit " or " exit ,
 or type an EOF (Ctrl-D) at the prompt.
+.SS COMMENTS
+Anything following a double slash
+.RB ( // )
+up to the end of the line, and all lines starting with a hash mark
+.RB ( # )
+are treated as a comment and ignored.
 .SS NUMBERS
-ginsh accepts numbers in all formats accepted by CLN (the Class Library for
-Numbers, that is the foundation of GiNaC's numerics). This includes arbitrary
+ginsh accepts numbers in the usual decimal notations. This includes arbitrary
 precision integers and rationals as well as floating point numbers in standard
 or scientific notation (e.g.
 .BR 1.2E6 ).
@@ -46,6 +51,11 @@ The general rule is that if a number contains a decimal point
 .RB ( . ),
 it is an (inexact) floating point number; otherwise it is an (exact) integer or
 rational.
+Integers can be specified in binary, octal, hexadecimal or arbitrary (2-36) base
+by prefixing them with
+.BR #b ", " #o ", " #x ", or "
+.BI # n R
+, respectively.
 .SS SYMBOLS
 Symbols are made up of a string of alphanumeric characters and the underscore
 .RB ( _ ),
@@ -82,7 +92,7 @@ Archimedes' Constant
 .B Catalan
 Catalan's Constant
 .TP
-.B EulerGamma
+.B Euler
 Euler-Mascheroni Constant
 .TP
 .B I
@@ -306,7 +316,7 @@ detail here. Please refer to the GiNaC documentation.
 .BI rem( expression ", " expression ", " symbol )
 \- remainder of polynomials
 .br
-.BI series( expression ", " "symbol [" ", " "point [" ", " order]] )
+.BI series( expression ", " relation-or-symbol ", " order )
 \- series expansion
 .br
 .BI sqrfree( expression ", " symbol )
@@ -369,6 +379,14 @@ will print a dump of GiNaC's internal representation for the given
 .IR expression .
 This is useful for debugging and for learning about GiNaC internals.
 .PP
+The command
+.RS
+.BI iprint( expression );
+.RE
+prints the given
+.I expression
+(which must evaluate to an integer) in decimal, octal, and hexadecimal representations.
+.PP
 Finally, the shell escape
 .RS
 .B !
@@ -439,7 +457,7 @@ Christian Bauer <Christian.Bauer@uni-mainz.de>
 .br
 Alexander Frink <Alexander.Frink@uni-mainz.de>
 .br
-Richard B. Kreckel <Richard.Kreckel@uni-mainz.de>
+Richard Kreckel <Richard.Kreckel@uni-mainz.de>
 .SH SEE ALSO
 GiNaC Tutorial \- An open framework for symbolic computation within the
 C++ programming language