The latest Maple 17 bashing from Mathematica appears on their comparison webpage.

The first thing that paid my attention in their "comparison" was their comparison of the Mobius project to the Mathematica demonstrations project.  To my knowledge the Mobius project is an extension to application center which I thought was the same as Mathematica demonstration project anyways ???

Anyways anyone have thoughts on this recent comparison?

I've been playing around with power towers and thought my latest might be interesting enough to post.

I used Wolfram Alpha on the big numbers (n=5..50). Some corrected.

What do you think about spliting of single worksheet where code and results are placed into two separate worksheets where code and results of computation are placed separately?

Thank you.

Recently I was presented with some code that had a seq command that used i as the index variable. While this code had been used in a number of applicaitons, it was now giving trouble.

seq( i^2, i=1..10 );
Error, illegal use of an object as a name

After a stroke of fortune it was discovered that the problem was that Maple's imaginary unit had been changed from I to i. Given that this change was made, the error message now made sense.

In this article I want to discuss the right way to store and build Maple code.

As mentioned in the Introducing the Maple IDE post, over 90 percent of the algorithms built into Maple are implemented using Maple language. The code of the algorithms is stored as Maple Libraries (.mla files).

As

At some point a version of the Maple Player (for the PC, rather than iPad) became available for download from its webpage.

Try to run the following:

>restart;
>d := conjugate(u)*conjugate(y)+conjugate(v)*conjugate(x);
>z := conjugate(f)/d+conjugate(G)*w*conjugate(w)*conjugate(y)/d;
>z2 := simplify(z);

and you will get correct answer

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Everyone knows that Maple combines a smart user interface with a highly sophisticated mathematical engine, where common tasks are performed quickly and seamlessly with point, click and drag operations. Of equal importance, however, is the fact that Maple is also backed by a comprehensive programming language. Also called "Maple", this language combines elements from procedural languages (like C), functional languages (like Lisp) as well as object oriented languages (like C++...

Comments to posts should also have the option to up vote.

A few weeks ago, we announced that we had established a partnership with DigiArea, Inc. to bring the Maple IDE to the Maplesoft Web Store.  Development is progressing well, and I'm happy to report that we expect to have the IDE available for download beginning on June 19th.  

One of the most basic decisions a baseball manager has to make is how to arrange the batting order.  There are many heuristics and models for estimating the productivity of a given order.  My personal favourite is the use of simulation, but by far the most elegant solution from a mathematical perspective uses probability matrices and Markov chains.  An excellent treatment of this topic can be found in Dr. Joel S. Sokol's article,

Hi all,

This is just for fun.

I am originally from Shanghai China and I went abroad to UK in 2006. Maple has always been there for me. Maple was there for my senior year, for my foundation year, for all my undergraduate year, for my master's degree and for my PhD!

Somehow, I lost Maple 10. I will see if I can find it from my backup drive again!

I will post here the output of two commands that has me a bit worried. Of course it is entirely possible that I am overlooking something very simple, which is why I am writing to your site.

> residue(1/(2^s-1), s=2*Pi*I*3/log(2));
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Some errors in MapleSim Tutorials! While I was working with MapleSim tutorials, I have encountered some problems that the results did not match the answer. I have uploaded the files, that I have worked on, in a zip file to this address (http://www.mediafire.com/download/2pirvfbawyjfa18/MapleSim_Projects.zip). The problems are as follows:

1. Based on video tutorial on this page (

On May 17, 2013 I finished a 2,000,000 or more digit computation of the MRB constant, using only around 10GB of RAM. It took 37 days 5 hours 6 minutes 47.1870579 seconds. You can write marvin@marvinrayburns.com for the digits.
The program I used was based on Richard E. Crandall's work:
Richard E. Crandall,Unified algorithms for polylogarithm, L-series, and zeta variants(53 pages)