And now, some abstracts from the Maple Update for April...
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1) The Maple Reporter Spring 2003...online now!
The latest edition of Maplesoft's (formerly Waterloo Maple's) bi-annual
publication is out now. Find out about a new web-based assessment software
package from Maplesoft: Maple T.A. and discover the reasoning behind the
introduction of the new business name, Maplesoft... All this and more. You
can read each article in full online or order a copy through the post by
clicking on the following link:
http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/go?pg=U94
2) Your Guide to Maple Technical Information
Here is a quick summary of Maple support information, user discussion
groups, Maple worksheets and other tools available online:
Maple User Group Archive:
http://lists.adeptscience.co.uk/mug/
The Adept Scientific Knowledge Base:
http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/go?pg=U96
Access the following groups on Google at http://groups.google.com/
comp.soft-sys.math.maple
sci.math.symbolic
Maplesoft Maple's Technical Support Centre:
http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/go?pg=U98
Maple Application Centre:
http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/go?pg=U99
3) Two tech tips from the Maple Support Desk
TIP ONE: Equivalent operations in Excel and Maple may give completely
different answers.
This is something that caught me out as I was copying and pasting parts of
expressions from Excel to Maple.
Enter -1^2 (exactly as it appears) into a cell in Excel and hit enter.
You'll get 1 as an answer. The unary minus takes precedence over the
exponentiation operation.
Type -1^2; into Maple and hit enter. You'll get -1 as an answer. The
exponentiation operation binds more tightly than the unary minus.
TIP TWO: Try these two ways of creating a cylinder in Maple:
plots[implicitplot3d](x^2+y^2=1, x=-1..1, y=-1..1, z=-1..1);
and
plots[display](plottools[cylinder]())
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LTSN Maths, Stats & OR Network
School of Mathematics and Statistics [log in to unmask]
The University of Birmingham tel 0121-414 4800
Birmingham B15 2TT fax 0121-414 3389
The Maths, Stats & OR Network is part of the Learning and Teaching
Support Network, which provides discipline-based support for
learning and teaching in UK universities.
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