There is a mapletviewer for viewing .maplet files, but I think one still needs Maple to use it.

Also, there is a possibility to run MapleNet (or other Maple server) on your web site, but one has to pay Maplesoft something for that, I think.

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Alec Mihailovs, PhD
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Mapleprimes traditionally had problems with 2d-math. It never looked nice (and doesn't look nice now), and several rather long periods of time didn't work at all, especially in MathML form. In many of my posts (can't provide an example, because I replaced it with a plain text output every time when I noticed that), even if it looked bearable originally, it became incomprehensible in time. That was one of the reasons why several people including me used preformatted plain text instead.

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Alec Mihailovs, PhD
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John, for you, being a physicist, new Physics and Differential Geometry packages might be of interest, as well as enhancements in ODE and PDE solving. The Standard interface is slightly more tolerable in later Maple editions than in 9.5, which allows using it for plots from time to time.

The easiest (and cheapest) way to obtain it might be joining the beta-testing program.

Free speach is not very well sanctioned there, but otherwise that may be fun.

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Alec Mihailovs, PhD
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Mathematica and Matlab both offer them, and both of them are well worth the money.

Matlab includes MuPad which language is quite similar to Maple.

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Alec Mihailovs, PhD
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Yes, most (almost all) of them are answered.

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Alec Mihailovs, PhD
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I got a few errors trying to see the worksheet on the MapleNet, and wasn't able to see the plots there.

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Alec Mihailovs, PhD
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I wonder what motivated the person voted that my post down to do that?

Whether it has been changed in Maple 14, or not, it works exactly as I posted in the earlier Maple version that I have. If I had Maple 14, and tested it there, I wouldn't post that particular example - I would try one of others that I know, which is not a problem to construct.

Perhaps, it works as designed, but it is certainly not the way it should work.

The fact that Maple 14 is not able to compute the series, is also not a normal behavior.

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Alec Mihailovs, PhD
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I thought I answered that above (in ths comment). What else could be said?

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Alec Mihailovs, PhD
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I thought I answered that above (in ths comment). What else could be said?

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Alec Mihailovs, PhD
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The Bionic Woman may be one of the reasons.

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Alec Mihailovs, PhD
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By the way, the Maple V Release 4 demo for Windows (not DOS) is available for download from Maple's ftp site.

Works in Vista.

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Alec Mihailovs, PhD
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The original problem seems to be fixed.

Just noticed the same problem with search results - page 2 shows the same links as page 1.

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Alec Mihailovs
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@pagan 

Thinking about that, anonimity, actually, might be good in this situation for those voters down, 4 out of 5 of which work at Maplesoft, if they voted down posts of their bosses.

Looking at their names, I don't recall ever pulling any of their legs, so I don't see a reason, frankly, why would 3 of them would like to pull one (or both) of mine.

I live in a free country, and anonimity for me usually associates with not so free conditions as we have here.

Personally, I don't see any reason why I would want to keep my opinions secret - if I've voted somebody's post up, I'd like that person to know about that, as well as if I've voted somebody's post down, which hasn't happened yet, but might happen, theoretically speaking, in the future, I wouldn't mind him or her to know about that.

For you, being anonymous yourself, the situation might certainly look different.

Alec

At this time, it is rather clear though - only 5 people have a Thumbs Down badge.

And looking at the 3 thumbs down for my this post, 3 of them don't want to get known.

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Alec Mihailovs
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The question, as it formulated in the subject, was why 2 equal inputs, one in a fraction form, and another one - in a decimal (float) form, produce 2 different answers. There is no such a problem with 1/3, because it doesn't have a finite decimal representation equal to it, in which case getting different answers is not surprising - different inputs produce different outputs.

Increasing digits over the hardware limit is not for achieving a better precision - it is for disabling of the usage of hardware floats. The default setting of UseHardwareFloats is deduced which means using them if the Digits setting is less than 16, and not using them otherwise.

Advising not using RREF in this situation is certainly correct - not using RREF won't produce different answers for equal inputs in this example. That may be a good template for other answers in similar situations. Even better one would be not to use Maple if you get something wrong - not using it won't produce an error.

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Alec Mihailovs
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