I just installed Maple 12 (Home User version).  The first thing I checked was whether Maplet Builder is still part of Maple.  It is.  Then I checked whether, having built a maplet with Maplet Builder, you can run it from within Maplet Builder.  I saw the same behavior as in Maple 11:  You are out of luck if your maplet contains a MathMLViewer window--you have to save the maplet and run it standalone to see it run.  In other words, no change in Maple 12.  This may discourage people from using Maplet Builder, but I have a feeling Maplesoft may not see that a

Hi,

I would like to suggest that Maplesoft provide a Finite Element Analysis package.

A straightforward well-supported way of setting up these problems would definitely be of value to those who are not experts.

Regards.

Sloane's On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences has the following entry:

A110375  Numbers n such that Maple 9.5, Maple 10 and Maple 11 give the wrong answers for the number of partitions of n.   
 
 11269, 11566, 12376, 12430, 12700, 12754, 15013, 17589, 17797, 18181, 18421, 18453, 18549, 18597, 18885, 18949, 18997

I wonder whether that can be extended to Maple 12 as well (I don't have it to check.)

Alec

We have a list of random binary numbers, say, A=[1,1,0,0,1,0]. Based upon A we want to write a matrix M=[a(i,j)] of order 5x5, where each a(i,j) is a list of length(A), comprising real numbers in closed interval [0,1]. All these reals in a(i,j) are less or equal to the corresponding entry in A.
 
Furthermore, the matrix rows and columns have to satisfy following conditions:

1. min(a(i,r),a(i,s))=[0,0,0,0,0,0] for every i,r,s such taht r<>s.
   min(a(r,j),a(s,j))=[0,0,0,0,0,0] for every i,r,s such taht r<>s.

Visual Studio Express which is a small version of Visual Studio available for free download, has appeared to be very successful in 2 directions. First, it practically killed all other C and C++ compilers for Windows, as well as decreased number of people using cygwin and mingwin. Second, many people downloaded it and used it for some time at home, have made their companies to buy Professional or Team Suite versions for their work. It started with VS 2005 and continues now with VS 2008.

Take a look at one of the most successful software companies, Microsoft.

Their most successful operating system names were either year-related, 95, 98, and 2000, or had some names, XP and Vista. Their latest Office software were named as Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007.  Visual Studio .NET, 2005, and 2008.

Continuing traditional Maple naming scheme, the next version would be Maple 13, with number 13 that many consider being unlucky.

I suggest to apply the successful Microsoft naming strategy instead and name it Maple 2009.

...is there a way to change that?

~Rich~

In the Table Properties dialog, I was at first puzzled at the % field. Mine says 00.0% = 675.8 Points. Wasn't until I thought to modify the % box that I found that the 00.0 is really 100.0.

~Rich~

Hello!

My kittens finally managed to destroy my macbook pro, it was on its way out, but clearly the kittens had a grudge.  It was a first generation but still was my finest machine to date. 

Now being back in school and .. well just dont have the money flow for now, I am wondering what people think about the performance of Maple on a Macbook, will it be sufficient for a student (mathematics)? 

I know most people here are on PC's but Im sticking with OS x.

heres the specs:

http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.html

Is the MaplePrimes server clock off by about fifteen minutes?  The posted times differ by about that from what I expect.

In the command-line or Classic worksheet interfaces of Maple, after entering

?pointplot

only the help page for Statistics[PointPlot] is shown.

This is strange, since plots[pointplot] gives an exact match for the lower case name entered while Statistics[PointPlot] does not. In Maple 10.06, that same help query showed the plots[pointplot] page.

In the Standard worksheet interface that same command brings up the Statistics[PointPlot] page. But a...

Not only it would be desirable, but it is already implemented elsewhere as in Cadabra [quoted from its site]:

Cadabra is a computer algebra system (CAS) designed specifically for the solution of problems encountered in field theory.

Key features of Cadabra:

IfI declare a function or expression before any "assume" statement, then the variables used in the expression do not have any trailing tildes "~". When an assume statement comes after this, there is some sense in which the variable name is changed (as indicated by the "about" statement), but there is also some sense in which the variable name is not changed, as it is still possible to use "subs" with the original variable name:

I find the General tab of the Options dialog in Maple 11 has a section for the Mathematical Engine.  The user is given the choice of a new engine for each document or to share one engine among all documents.  I am running a Intel Core 2 Duo so I presume that I should enable SMP support.  But, I don't know what factors to consider when deciding on the use of shared or multiple engines.

Are there specific tradeoffs to consider?  Does the use of a shared engines save memory or increase performance?

Header Footer are a welcome addition, BUT
1. It's not obvious how to get a different header | footer on the first page, a fundamental option.
2. The &(Date) is not picking up my system date format!!
3. I placed this in the righthand box "MyName ~ &[Page] of &[Pages]", but it does not show up in the preview.
4. There is no option to change the font style or size in the header|footer, a fundamental requirement.

No hotkey for common functions such as pi, sqrt, text alignment. These would speed data entry.