Do I understand it correct: you are looking for examples, where NO library functions are used? Especially no built-in methods? My first thought was: anything that compiles to a C program - but I guess, that code containing numerics like transcentental functions would not quite be what you want. Could you give some rough criteria to sort out code you do not want (as one may not have cared that much what Maple (internally) uses)?

sounds not that bad and a lame idea: if you put the *content* of a gif as its name i should be readable even if saving it without the gifs themself i guess (but not sure what HTML and the board SW and Maple's export allows here) now back to the Math ...

Besides my primary intention (numerical troubles with recursion): My personal taste is simlar to Jacques', I find the converted stuff not very fine. While italics could be replaced by Times Roman as output (and I have that in my style sheets as default) it is my opinion to have code *always* as fixed font and indentation (I would even prefer Maple to have it as a default feature, like in some editors, will have a look at Joe Riel's way). So I prefer to have the code as I posted it, but would not mind for the written text (where I would actually prefer fonts allowing to distinguish l and 1 or 0 and O). For the output: a different font would look nicer as it makes Math more readable (I forgot what is used in typesetting for Math using Tex). The main drawback however is: if output is in gifs then I can not simply save postings to my disk, but have to print to a postscript file and if I want to copy/paste from it even further to a pdf. The other point why not convert to *.ws is simple: I do not want to work with that format and environment if not *really* needed (and users of the older versions never can read it), but can upload the *.mws if wanted: mindless_numerical_recursion.mws (7 kB)

Your reasoning is correct and almost convinced me, but leaves some unsureness: my feeling is, that it opens a door to produce more false limits ... but I take it as an invitation to avoid mindless use of 'limit' :-) Best Axel

this cancelation problem/example does not apply here (that's why 1 was added) and that limit is one of the things we 'learn' at school ... Or do you think that M would run into lots of cases to report (for a general answer)? The problem is: while 'removable singularities' are a bit a matter of taste the above answer is false and quite hard to discover in a longer coding :-( I would at least prefer an answer like " = blabla assuming that blabla ..." Or "need additional assumptions to answer your task" That's a thing I really miss, may be I am too optimistic, yes?

Yes (in German it is a 'Halbgeviertstrich', do not know the English expression). I copied it from a pdf document - this sometimes gives even non-printable characters ... Wikipedia for a bit more.

Yes (in German it is a 'Halbgeviertstrich', do not know the English expression). I copied it from a pdf document - this sometimes gives even non-printable characters ... Wikipedia for a bit more.

try to copy & paste the following:

108 – ( 815 – 1500/z )/y;

For me (Win XP, M10.06) it does not work :-)

try to copy & paste the following:

108 – ( 815 – 1500/z )/y;

For me (Win XP, M10.06) it does not work :-)

just have a break and had a look - the file seems to quite nice and have a size of ~ 4 MB using at a *fast* internet connection here you give just 40 kB / sec ~ 2 min for download i would never try this at home, but would contact my reseller

more or less: yes. Just post ASCII text files without caring for HTML-clean-up and fixed fonts.

or you kick out all the 'idiots' like http://www.mapleprimes.com/user/3384/track and is spam ... may be some visual protection at registration like Yahoo for their groups (but more readable)?

that would be good ...

I always missed such a feature, being used to it in Excel: really convenient to have results at the LHS and possible errors at the RHS (say in %, with sign, so having a 0). And a mess, if pressing that into one axes ...

I always missed such a feature, being used to it in Excel: really convenient to have results at the LHS and possible errors at the RHS (say in %, with sign, so having a 0). And a mess, if pressing that into one axes ...