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+======SyMAT Toolkit Template======
+Starting in version 1.8, SyMAT has the ability to load toolkits into scripts.
+
+These toolkits are jar files with a special meta.txt file.  
+This meta file maps packages and classes to variables they can be accessed with.
+
+The meta.txt file included in this template maps the class 
+com.symatapp.toolkit.HelloWorld to the variable hello.  
+To call the function world(), type hello.world() into SyMAT.
+
+====License====
+This repository is in the public domain, according to the terms of 
+Creative Commons Zero (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).
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