I recently ran into an interesting twist on the infamous Maple anti-pattern:

# A very garbagey way to build a list
l := [];
for i from 1 to 10000 by 100 do
    l := [op(l), isqrt(abs(floor((5000-i)/2)))];
end do;

A lot of users fall prey to this method of building a list rather than using seq:

# generate a list without extraneous garbage
l := [seq(isqrt(abs(floor((5000-i)/2))),i=1..10000,100)];

While marketing material naturally talks about new features in a release, we of course also put considerable effort into investigating and correcting problems with the product. Many of these fixes are in direct response to problems reported on MaplePrimes.  Thank-you. We recognize that reporting these issues takes time, and we really appreciate your help in making our products better.

As a follow up to the original announcement, I thought I’d include a few more details on some of the new features in Maple 13 designed for engineers. For more information, visit the What’s New pages for professionals and for engineering education.

As a follow-up to the original post, I thought I’d mention a few of the additional new features particular to math education. For more information, visit the What’s New section of the website.

Concept Learning Tools: Maple 13 includes new and improved concept learning tools:

With the release of Maple 13, we have also released a major new feature to Maplesoft.com, Online Help:

Every one of Maple's help pages is now available online. With this new feature, you will be able to view the help pages right in your browser and download the source Maple worksheet to interact with in Maple.

      
We are pleased to announce that we have just released new versions of Maple and MapleSim!

Maplesoft has launched our brand new Application Center.  Aside from updating the overall look of the Application Center, several new features have been added, such as the ability to post comments on apps.  When you have a minute, head on over and take a look for yourself!

The third edition of Getting Started with Maple was released by John Wiley & Sons in March 2009.

The author team for this edition is:

• Douglas B. Meade (Univ of S. Carolina)
• Mike May, S.J. (St. Louis Univ)
• C-K. Cheung (Boston Univ)
• G.E. Keogh (Boston Univ)

The 13-digit ISBN is 978-0-470-45554-8.

To celebrate 3.14 for 2009, I made the attached worksheet with an interactive Pi Chart (also a pie chart) to plot the relative frequency of the digits of pi in various bases.  Enjoy.

View 5480_PiFreq-component.mw on MapleNet or Download 5480_PiFreq-component.mw
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