When exporting a maple page to PDF there's no way to tell where Maple will split the pages (where text ends on one page and begins on another).  Be nice to have a 'view split pages' options or something.

We are considering using Flash for a major part of the new version of MaplePrimes, and would like to know if you have Flash in your browser. Please vote in the new poll.

This morning, Jim Cooper added a blog post detailing what it was like selling Maplesoft to Cybernet.  It's an interesting and revealing post... enjoy!

http://www.maplesoft.com/blog/view.aspx?sid=33910

In my previous post, I tried to convince you that going parallel is necessary for high performance applications. In this post, I am going to show what makes parallel programming different, and why that makes it harder.

Here are some definitions used in this post:

• process: the operating system level representation of a running executable. Each process has memory that is protected from other processes.
• thread: within a single process each thread represents an independent, concurrent path of execution. Threads within a process share memory.

We think of a function as a series of discrete steps. Lets say a function f, is composed of steps f1, f2, f3... e.g.

Selling a company is emotionally wrenching. It was even more intensive for us at Maplesoft since we had a large number of founders who had been actively involved with the company for 20+ years. The decision for founders to sell a company so that it can move to the next stage is truly massive.

We had the luxury of a number of suitors with essentially equivalent initial financial offers, but this also destined us for a long process with lots of discussion and many twists and detours along the way. I remember the saying: that which does not kill you makes you stronger ;-). This was also my 2nd time going through the full process and maybe I can offer some advice to novices, noting the old saying that free advice is not always worth the price.

What i said before Maple is great product but it needs improvements in some areas. Step by step solutions on integrals with apsolute value doesn't work. Maple calculate the final result corect but there is no step by step solution.Two typical examples are abs(x)dx  and  1/(1-abs(cos(x)))dx

Best wishes

Aleksandar

In the field of calculus Maple is very strong , the strongest i have ever seen, but with work with algebra is very week i will say very poor. Equation manipulator works only with equation not with expression . Look how it works on Algebrator 4.2 and you wil see what I mean. Simplify doesn't work corect see example in atachment. If you have step by step solutions on integrals this to implement on algebra is 100 times easy becouse here you know what is the next step.

Some of you may “know” me already, but I wanted to let you all know that as part of the ongoing changes to MaplePrimes, I will now be acting as the community manager. My thanks to Tim for his excellent work over the past year, and also to Will and Bryon who will continue to support the site’s technical aspects.

On September 4, I wrote a blog post asking for some suggestions regarding what we should do to update MaplePrimes.  The responses that we got back were varied and very valuable.  Using those suggestions as a foundation, we have mapped out a list of features that we will address in this project.

I started six month ago with what I though at the time to be a simple question.

Why is the mean in the Black and Scholes model assumed to be (mu-(1/2)*sigma^2)*T ?

I had seen numerous attempts of deriving such an relationship on the Internet but every solution that I found always had some flaw in the step-by-step mathematical logic which meant that the solution was rendered useless.

Sometime in 1992 I was offered the title of “Applications Engineer” at Maplesoft. I was the company’s very first employee to hold this title and it was my first real job.  I was thrilled! Imagine, if you will, an impoverished student who had been living on the most pitiful of incomes for almost ten years, all of a sudden being offered a great salary and the chance to travel and meet interesting people around the world! And for the most part, all I had to do was show people how great this thing called Maple was.

A few years ago I wrote a tool, mgrep, for searching Maple repositories;  download mgrep.zip. The zip file includes the noweb source (mgrep.nw), however, it is missing some of the files needed to rebuild the documentation—I will add them later when I bring an old drive back online.  You should not, however, need to rebuild the documentation (mgrep.pdf) because it is included along with the shell-script (mgrep) and gawk file (mgrep.awk).  To use the tool you will need to install mgrep and mgrep.awk in a directory in your path.  The --help option prints a brief help page.

Here I use mgrep to partially explore a question that  acer poses, that, whether % may be usefully employed in a Maple procedure. A reasonable start is to see whether it is so used in the distributed Maple library.  First I go to the lib subdirectory of the Maple installation, then call mgrep to search maple.mla for all procedures that use % as a name

Happy New Year!

Alec

I find the zooming in on a plot rather cumbersome.  First you zoom and the plot tends to wander then you have to select the pan and zoom again. 

I would find it much better if you could make a box on the plot to zoom to.  Similar to one of AutoCAD's zooming options. 

Seems there's a little tweaking needed for the plot when parameters are left are out for two plots or more.  Maple doesn't take the plot far enough in some cases. 

For example:

plot([(1000^x),(x!)]);         With this format Maple doesn't, but should, include both plots.  It gets 'stuck' as it were on the x-axis going only to 10

however adding parameters fixes the issue, but I shouldn't have to do this. 

plot([(1000^x),(x!)],x=0..35,y=0..1e30);