@Alejandro Jakubi 

Oh I didn't know about Oracles, I'll follow up on the link, thanks a lot Alejandro.

@Joe Riel 

Zeno as in Ralph's cousin?

paradox for Tom but not for Jerry, right? 

Tom gets there against Zeno's expectations,but Jerry doesn't even get close

@Joe Riel 

Zeno as in Ralph's cousin?

paradox for Tom but not for Jerry, right? 

Tom gets there against Zeno's expectations,but Jerry doesn't even get close

Maple does think so:

s := n -> sum(2^(2-k), k=1..n):
limit(s(n),n=infinity);
                               4

I couldn't find a reference on "Ralph's equation" --- is that well known?

Maple does think so:

s := n -> sum(2^(2-k), k=1..n):
limit(s(n),n=infinity);
                               4

I couldn't find a reference on "Ralph's equation" --- is that well known?

while the user blogs were removed, there is a mapleprimes blog

http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog

for the elite.

let's hope incentives get properly aligned Alejandro...

I know what you mean Axel, a simple change of coordinates can turn a movement forward into a movement backward...

@Alejandro Jakubi 

following up via the blog I came to this link to the wolfram app, very nice, when will Maple have its own app?

http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2011/04/07/the-wolframalpha-app-for-android-is-free-on-amazon-today/

@Alejandro Jakubi 

following up via the blog I came to this link to the wolfram app, very nice, when will Maple have its own app?

http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2011/04/07/the-wolframalpha-app-for-android-is-free-on-amazon-today/

I need all the help I can get!

How did I get here anyway? Googled "lost on mapleprimes" and this post came up top of the list.

Sadly the same search within mapleprimes didn't yield any obvious hint as to how to get here...

Improve mapleprimes search now!

fascinating stuff, thanks for sharing!

@Alejandro Jakubi 

Thanks for the links Alejandro. I can't find any link to my alleged posts on the topic, and I can see that I had read Jacques comment at the time, with the explicit mention of "reinventing the wheel"... so until I find a trace of my thoughts (if any) I must conclude that most likely my recollection is of Jacques's post --- I must have thought at the time "that's exactly my view" and later came to believe I'd written it. With such an unreliable memory as mine, you can see how dependent I am on the archiving system!

>Old blog posts weren't deleted, but they became merely Posts. I found that disappointing, as the blog lists for Joe, Jacques, Alec, Doug, Axel, etc, were convenient and the contents were very interesting

Ah yes, the good old days! I remember those acer.

stuff (I dare not call them "posts" as this is now a "reserved" word) used to be classified more or less by theme ("blog", "students", "forum", "suggestions", etc) and that was quite useful (students did not always post under the student section, but that was not too much of a problem). By contrast, the modern classification is according to a very abstract notion like "question,"  "answer", etc. with no room for in-betweens like writing that contains answers, questions, and comments all at once. Weird. Not the way I file stuff in my PC.

Before the new mapleprimes site was launched, I wrote something along the lines of "don't re-invent the wheel" and "follow the layout of successful forums" and perhaps I gave some examples (no chance of finding that "stuff" of mine now since I don't remember exactly the words, but it would have been under the old "suggestions" folder). But it seems that wheels were reinvented over and over...

To find this thread, for instance, I had to click on my username, but I also had to click on "show more" because by default the most "successful" stuff is listed on top, not the most recent. Strangely it was not under "Recent conversations" despite the fact that your comment had been written only 2 minutes earlier...

@laurent 

> One important reason that the Classic worksheet is not evolving any more is that it's based on a cross-platform toolkit (StarView) from a company that has long since disappeared. Hence we are unable to port Classic to new platforms like 64 bit Windows.

Well I cannot comment about the technical difficulties of upgrading an obsolete toolkit, but surely if classic gui were in any way a priority I bet they'd be ways to "port" it. So the important reason that the classic worksheet is not evolving is that the standard worksheet is Maplesoft's priority.

> Down the road, we'll look into providing a desktop shortcut that defaults to 1D, in order to make this even easier.

I hope this is not an infinite road. This looks to me like a definite priority. Many of the posts on mapleprimes reflect newbies' difficulties in processing differences between the different setups (1D v. 2D, etc.). It really should be made easier to set up and to know at any one time which set-up is being used. Some users only use Maple infrequently, to do homework for a particular course for instance, and should not be made to learn the hard way something they may not need to remember for a while.

Maple developers might benefit in getting mapleprimes to request users to tag their message with "1D" or "2D" and "doc" or "wks", etc.. This would be a way to learn about users' preferences. And it would make it easier to communicate on mapleprimes. It should not be difficult to add an option where each mapleprimes users can optionally associate these different options (Maple14-1D-Worksheet-Windows7-64bits,etc.) to their profile. This would also help clarify some of the questions that come up on mapleprimes, where all too often newbies do not know there are differences between these different ways of using Maple.

@Alejandro Jakubi 

Oh, I see there's quite a long history to all of this, isnt' there!

In recent months, several mapleprimes users have asked about whether there were any plans to create a Maple app for smartphone. Today I went to the "android market" for a bit of freeware shopping. One finds a fee-paying Wolfram app as well as several other non-corporate apps that are freeware. I can't comment about Wolfram's as there's a 2 dollar fee I haven't paid (yet), but the freeware apps are great. I looked at: "RealCalc," "Mathroid," and "Calculus Tools." Why wouldn't Maple start by making its calculator available for free on the apps market? It has competitive capabilities. It would be a formidable advertising tool. (Search "Maple" on the android app market, you get nothing about MapleSoft) Together with a simple app to visit mapleprimes from a smartphone. Two simple steps, not so radical, and take it from there...