This little nugget definitely needs to make it into the help files.

This little nugget definitely needs to make it into the help files.

That's definitely an option, and the more experienced users may prefer that. I've even considered diving into it myself. However, I've found document mode worksheets to be amazingly temperamental and difficult to work with. Exporting directly to a word processor (in my case, it's Pages '08 from Apple) gives additional flexibility and most importantly for students like myself, ease of use. Naturally, different people find different methods easier/faster/more appealing, and it is simply smart to make it easy for as many people as practical.

even on Maple 12, at least with a few rudimentary operations, it doesn't seem to make much use of multiple processors. It'll flip back and forth between my two cores, but only really uses one at a time, leaving the other almost idle while the first one is cranking full speed. It should be noted though that, from a computational perspective, a lot of tasks do not actually benefit from multiple processors. Many of the things that our computers do, especially in math, are very much sequential tasks. For those that are not naturally sequential, most of the algorithms we have at this point in time are from the old days of single core processing, and are designed with that in mind. It takes some effort to redesign basic algorithms to be MP capable.

I have Maple 10 Student Edition, with the 10.01 version of the installer, ppc only apparently. It crapped out on me when I installed leopard, and I got that same java error with the tip count thing. I tried many times using the 10.06 updater and lots of other stuff, but kept getting the error. What has finally worked is: 1. Go to the Java Preferences applet and change the APPLICATION java settings so that 1.4.2, or whatever, is at the top of the list, instead of 5.0. 2. Do a fresh install of Maple 10. Do NOT install the updater. 3. Right click on the Maple 10 program and select 'Show Package Contents'. go to the Contents folder inside, and open the file 'info.plist'. Make sure you set the permissions for the file itself, the Contents folder, and the Maple 10 program in the get info screen (highlight the item in the Finder and press command-i) of each one so that user 'admin' has read&write access. Now, inside the info.plist, open Root/Java, and edit the item 'JVMVersion' so that the value is '1.4*', instead of '1.4+'. Save the file and quit. If it won't let you save, check your permissions again. 4. Open Maple 10. Should work. I'm thinking that the lack of working when I have the update installed may be due to the fact that the original installer is PPC, so the updater may have installed PPC code, instead of intel code, and that may be what's hashing things up. I should mention I'm running on a MacBook Pro 15" with CoreDuo, not the Core2Duo. Hope it works for ya.