Prior to the Finance package being updated to include holidays there was no easy way to have Maple generate when holidays occurred.  Hence for newer Maple users there would be no need for such a thing but I had an interest to create one for earlier versions.  The idea is quite simple enough and this is one solution I came up with.

I ran into trouble mathematically calculating easter (the first Sunday after the full moon after March 21st) I...

the seperate physics package update is a great welcome.  i wonder if the scientific constants paxkage could incorporate the same idea.  i can see why the elements properties were put there but it might have made more sense in the physics package.  anyways, the element proprties are continually being updated so it would make sense for small updates to occurr.  any thoughts.

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?

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I came across a plot3d where a non continuous function looked continuous. One way to confirm if it was indeed coninuous was to use style=point

with(plots):
plot3d(Im(sqrt(x+I*y)), x = -2 .. 2, y = -2 .. 2)

plot3d(Im(sqrt(x+I*y)), x = -2 .. 2, y = -2 .. 2, style = point, grid = [70, 70])