Over the last few years, I’ve been lucky enough to spend time in Taiwan.  In my first visit to Taipei, I was astounded by the sheer scale of the Taipei 101 skyscraper.  At over 500m tall it dwarfed everything else in the skyline.

Given the proximity of many active fault lines, tall buildings in Taipei have a degree of earthquake protection engineered into them with a tuned mass damper .

Hello. I have the error displayed in the title. I get this error when I choose "solve for p" when hovering over the following expression:
"
limit(sum(p^k*(1-p)^(x-k)*log2(factorial(x)/(factorial(k)*factorial(x-k))), k = 0 .. x), x = infinity)
"

Did I type in my expression badly or is it just not solvable?

Hello all,

I have a polynomial having the form P(x) = a_n*x^n + ... + a_1*x + a_0; where all coefficients a_n have numerical values. I use the Maple's routine solve to find the polynomial roots (solve(P)). The obtained roots real and complex. The polynomial order n is between 6 and 20, depending on the specific implementation.

My question is: what method is used in the solve routine? Similar post are discussed in

I am student at RPI ( calc 1 , like having calc 2) trying to start a project and having a bit of diffcultly. Can anyone help ?

I’ve always been fascinated with the relationships between math and music, since they are both fields in which I take a great interest. This week I’ve been delving into some of the history that links the two. For instance, the Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras (circa 569 - circa 475 BC) is probably best known for the Pythagorean Theorem. However, he also made significant contributions to music, the influences of which can still be seen today.

The function pdsolve gives different answers depending upon the way the problem is posed. For example:

> PDE1:=a*diff(u(x,t),t)+b*diff(u(x,t),x)-u(x,t)^2=0;
> ans1:=pdsolve(PDE1);

gives:

> ans1 := u(x,t) = b/(-x+_F1(-(-t*b+a*x)/b)*b);

Whilst,

> PDE2:=a*diff(u(t,x),t)+b*diff(u(t,x),x)-u(t,x)^2=0;
> ans2:=pdsolve(PDE2);

which is the same problem but with u(x,t) replaced by u(t,x), gives:

> ans2 := u(t,x) = a/(-t+_F1((-t*b+a*x)/a)*a);

Both are actually correct solutions, as is easily verified by a call to pdetest.

My query is:

Hi

Generally maple runs smoothly for me but if I have a very large loop then I sometimes find the memory allocation increases & increases until I hit a limit after which maple crashes with a message about "losing the kernel connection".

If a buy a new PC with more physical RAM (current PC has 2Gb) will the problem go away?

I use old style command line maple & have increased the virtual memory allocation as much as it allowed me to.

thanks!

Does Maple support Ternary diagrams that can be used for exploring parameters like thee phase relative permeabilities

 

I just read Paul Weiss' post in which he describes his troubles uploading files to MaplePrimes.

Earlier yesterday (19 Nov 2008) I experienced a similar problem when I was trying to upload a GIF file to include with one of my posts.

In my case, after I selected the file I wanted to upload, I was showed an earlier file that I had uploaded to MaplePrimes. Based on what I see in Paul's earlier post it appears as though he was trying to upload two files and the second file was really just a duplicate of the first one.

For the first time, Cybernet decided to coordinate two more major meetings with the TechnoForum – essentially creating a 2-day multiconference. In contrast to the Maplesoft-centric sessions of the Maple Techno Forum on Day 1, the second day was focused on industry problems and the technological and scientific solutions emerging from various sources.

Maple requires connection to the kernel for calculations.  Does that mean maple uses kernel mode device drivers? 

"Executing commands in Maple requires a connection to the Maple kernel"

What is a kernel, and why does Maple need to access the internet to perform simple commands?  I'm sure I've used maple without the internet before.

Hello everybody, I'd like to write from a procedure results in a table as output. Something like this, that I show at the end.

 

Just to clarify, this is not a post to discuss the character played by Cliff Robertson in the movie Gidget....this is much bigger.  This is to announce who the Maple Prime's Mentor of the Year is.  But before I get to that, I would like to thank all members of the Maple Primes community for their contributions over the past year. I hope that you will continue to be active and contribute regularly to Maple Primes.

In the volume Advanced Programming Guide of the Maple manual, the "clasical" picture of the Maple system architecture is depicted:

 A1: Internal Organization

Components

Maple consists of three main components: a kernel, a library, and a user interface. The kernel and library together are known as the math engine.

Kernel The kernel is written in the C language and is responsible for low-level operations such as arbitrary precision arithmetic, file I/O, execution of the Maple language, and the performance of simple mathematical operations such as differentiation of polynomials.

Library Most of the Maple mathematical functionality is in the Maple library, which is written in the Maple language. The library is stored in an archive, and pieces of it are loaded and interpreted by the kernel on demand.

User Interface The user interface is the part of Maple that the user sees, and is conceptually separate from the math engine. The same math engine can be used with different user interfaces.

However, the architecture of the system has been moving away from this picture for several years already. Eg:

A second parser has been implemented in the Standard GUI, instead of the kernel.