Hello Folks ! I'm running Maple 11 on Mac OS X Leopard (latest version 10.5.6). I've found what I think is a bug in Maple: when doing operations on large polynomials, like multiplication or factorization, the result is correct, but some ghost exponents show up on fractions or even plus/minus symbols. In the file I've attached you will see this in the last two results, in which a 4 exponent shows up over the 1/8 and +/- signs or even over some parenthesis. Maple doesn't seem to get confused wi

Hello Folks I've been a Maple user for quite a bit and I've never found an easy way to do an extremely simple thing: just want to input an expression like (1/4)*a + (1/4)*b + (1/4)*c and get (1/4)*(a+b+c). I've tried the collect, factor, coeff, combine, simplify, expand commands and nothing seems to work. Maybe I'm choosing the wrong options for these commands. The fact is that I always end up with (1/4)*a + (1/4)*b + (1/4)*c or other arrangement of the expression, but I cannot get just the