I am maple newbie. Sometimes when I look at Maple code to try to understand the algorithm (which is hard, since I do not know Maple well), I see the code puts ` ` around some keywords. And sometimes it does not. For example, sometimes I see something like (these are random samples) from Maple code shown using showstat()

return `if`(assigned(r),r,{})
r := `union`(r,{solve(op(1,expr) = 1,vs)})
v2 := `intersect`(vs,indets(op(1,expr),'name'));

But sometimes, they do not put ` ` around functions name or keywords, like this:

if nops(v2) = 1 then
t1 := remove(a -> has(a,RootOf),t1);
for t in expr do

and so on.

Can some expert please give what is the rule thumb to use? Should user adopt this method also? When to put ` ` and when not to put ` `?   I understand that ` ` prevents one-time evaluation (or rather, holds off immediate evaluation) and ``  `` prevents two times evaluation and so on. But when to use ` ` is what is confusing me.

any one managed to get this cloud app to work? I get an error on simple inputs:

http://maplecloud.maplesoft.com/application.jsp?appId=5651983367143424

I have to say also that the design of these apps is not well thought. The UI is too large to fit on the screen. Also, there is no button for the user to click on once input is there telling it to "proceed" It is not user friendly UI design.  I could not figure how to make the app full screen, instead of having it one window inside another for example.

When I do

seq(a||i,i=1..3); Maple returns   a1, a2, a3

But  seq(a__i,i=1..3);  returns a__i, a__i, a__i

Is there a way to make the second example also return  a__1,a__2,a__3 ?

http://www.maplesoft.com/support/help/Maple/view.aspx?path=worksheet/documenting/2DMathShortcutKeys

thank you,
Maple 2016.2

I am not a math major, so may be I am missing something here. But for this ode:

(diff(y(x),x))^2=4 * y(x)

There ought to be (I think) 2 solutions (other than the singular one y(x)=0), due to the square root. i.e the ode becomes

   diff(y(x),x)= +-  2* sqrt(y(x))

So for the + case, there is one solution, and for the - case, there is another solution. But Maple dsolve only gives one solution (again, ignoring the singular solution for now):

eq:=(diff(y(x),x))^2=4 * y(x);
sol:=dsolve(eq,y(x));

     y(x) = _C1^2-2*_C1*x+x^2

In Mathematica, it gives both solutions

ode = (y'[x])^2 == 4 y[x];
DSolve[ode, y[x], x] // Simplify
    {  {y[x] -> (1/4)*(-2*x + C[1])^2},   {y[x] -> (1/4)*(2*x + C[1])^2}}

Both Maple and Mathematica solutions are correct ofcourse. But my question is why did not Maple give both (non-singular) solutions? and it only gave one?

Maple 2016.2

I use Maple worksheet mode (not document mode). When I have a long line of code, or when I display some Maple source code, and if the line do not fit the current window size, the line will wrap to the next line, and make it hard to read the code.

Is there a way to configure the setting do that Maple keeps long line on same line and then I can use the horizontal scroll bar if I want to see the full line. This way the code is easier to read for me.

I looked at OPTIONS->DISPLAY and no see no such option. I also looked at few other options.

Here is a screen shot of what  I mean. Line 165 is too long and it wraps for example