Click Maple Math, enter x^2/(1+x).   The Preview disappears as soon as I press "/", and the result is not pretty-printed.

I selected the whole document and expanded the document blocks. There near the top of the document were nine copies of "plots[interactive]()" all in a row. Deleting them fixed the problem. Seldom is a fix so easy. Many thanks.

In this series of blog posts, I have picked on Baseball win-loss records already.  Looking for other sources of things that might or might not be random, I decided to look at lottery draws.  Since I live in Canada, the obvious lottery to look at is the national Lotto 6/49.

A lotto 6/49 draw consists of drawing 6 numbered balls from...

If you want to know what ::uneval does (it's an advanced option for procedure parameters), you can look at the uneval section of ?parameter_modifiers.  It is useful when you want to write a function which works on raw user input rather than on evaluated input.  This is quite tricky, and fraught with danger, and should only be used as a last resort;  but sometimes it really is rather handy.

Under the Recent tab where you select Your Contributions.  It does not show all my posts.  Why is that?

Specifically, one example, my post on Wordle is not shown when I select My Contributions.  The only way I can see it is if I use All posts.  Please fix.

If you are interested in listing to me ramble for an hour about integration algorithms, it looks like the recording of the Webinar I gave in early September has been posted to the academic webinar archive: Theory and Practice of Symbolic Integration in Maple. I tried to make it a broad introduction for someone with...

I've been making some use of the Maple Cloud for a while now, and thought that I'd share some comments.

So far, it's been quite useful to me, and I like it. This surprised me a bit. I expected not to find it useful, and to dismiss it with an old-timer's "Bah, humbug... as useless as Maple+twitter!" But, to the contrary, I've found a use for it; a need that isn't otherwise...

It's a new school year and traffic is up.  Just wondering what happened to the student maple forum?

Also as a suggestion, some forums have sticky's, a post that stays at the beginning of the forum where users can generally find welcome information and helpful starter hints, yes it's impossible to cover everything but something would be nice for the new users. 

Is there a way to get told only once that  "There are new updates on www.mapleprimes.com that match your notification subscriptions:" ?

I always receive 3 (when I do get any), and yes, they are identical.

3 times is better than 0 times, though.

I have gotten some comments about my new avatar, including a few commenting that while my picture is clear on the blog contributors sidebar, it is "blurry" on my blog posts. I just wanted clear this up.  I am not in the witness protection program; I just really love singular values.  My new avatar, just like my old one, is a rank 4 approximation of a picture of me using the singular value decomposition.

I lived in the UK before making the barely-considered decision to move to Canada.  I still have savings denominated in pounds sterling (all dutifully declared on my Canadian tax return).  Accordingly, I keep a close watch on the GBP-CAD exchange rate so I have some sense of my net worth.

When I arrived in Canada in July 2008, one pound sterling bought $2, down from $2.30 two years before that.  Today, the pound has devalued further and is worth around...

In a series of posts now imported to the Maplesoft blog (starting here), I have been talking about pseudo-random number sequences, but since part of what kicked off this series was a paper on true random number generation (with LASERS!) I thought I would share some routines I wrote that alllow you to use the two main true random number sources available on the web (neither using lasers, sadly).

I spent this past week preparing a Webex presentation to a client who was interested in using Maple for a physics course in chaos. Of the two texts selected for the course, I had one on my own bookshelf. So I scanned Steven Strogatz' text Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos (Addison Wesley, 1994) for topics that would profit from investigation with Maple.

I ran across something called wordle, somewhat of a quick visual word analysis, a collection of words used collected in an article and put into a collage of large and small font words based on the amount of times they were used. 

Here I have attempted something similar in Maple. 

wordle_project_proce.mw

I slightly modified and shortened...

Quite often, when plotting an expression in involving trigonometric functions applied to (a rational polynomial of) the main variable, it is desirable to have the major ticks along the x-axis be labeled by multiples of Pi. In particular, it can be much more appealing to have those tickmarks be labeled with short rationals multiplied by the 2D Math symbol π.