In the new Maple 15, if any calculation or process requires more than a few seconds, the cursor does not change to the hourglass (or equivalent) symbol. This makes it difficult to tell whether anything is happening and gives the impression that the program has hung.

I suggest that the hourglass (or equivalent) be resurrected whenever anything takes more than a few seconds.

The (new, Maple 15) Programming Guide is available for download from the Documentation Center.

This page from the Online Help suggests that GMP 4.2.1 is still being used in Maple 15.

But the latest "stable" release is GMP 4.3.2, see release notes here (various fixes and improvements in the 4.3.xx series mentioned).

Perhaps this could be updated in a service release Maple 15.xx.

What happened to all the Maple 5 applications at the maplesoft application center? 

Why just the other day I was looking at them.  Very dissappointed to see them "removed".  In particular a series of applications for mapping. 

The drop down option for Maple5 has dissappeared. 

Are they gone?  Can you put them back?

Since -1 = i^2 I thought that there could be some meaning behind "alternating" series that instead of beginning with (-1)^n begin with (a+b*i)^n, with real coefficients, for abs(a)<1 and abs(b)<1. I'm not sure but it seems that such series are absolutely convergent, because (a+b*i)^n -> 0+0I as n->infinity, hence the term utterly diminishing series instead of alternating series.

As an example,
Where sum((-1)^n*(n^(1/n)-1),n=1..infinity)= 0.187859642462067120248... ,

It still seems that the original post won't accept new replies, so I'm starting a new post.

On the topic of the quality of rendering of (2D) Math on websites, could that also be re-examined for both Mapleprimes and Maplesoft's on-line help system?

Right now the on-line help has pages with missing images in Examples. For example, the `int` and `sum` on-line help pages, here and here.

On that

The maplecloud may in some respects reduce the sharing of applications on mapleprimes and at the maplesoft application center.  A maplecloud user may instead of sharing his application via mapleprimes applications or the maplesoft website may just make his worksheet publicly available over the cloud simply because it's easier to do. 

It is true that mapleprimes is a different type of serviece that allows the interaction of ideas/questions as well as the sharing...

Mapleprimes takes unusually longer to load than used to.  And some people complain about being emailed 3 x's I'm not sure it's fixed but I've noticed my page actually loading 3 times before it actually comes up.  I'm on dial up so I can notice things people on high speed won't notice.

One other thing possibly very important to the web program designers of this site.  If I load the mapleprimes web page and say stay offline, it does this 3 times. ...

 It seems I can't add a response to this message, so I added some detail to it.

Hello,

I started using Maple TA to create some online exercises for students at a universtity of applied sciences in Germany. I proceeded in writing the exercises with the help of LaTeX. Here I would like to share some experiences in a kind of overview. For me there are 4 major fields of disaffection:

1. In general, the Maple TA rendering of math content is very poor. Look at the layout produced by LaTeX and you know what I mean.

2. The conversion of LaTeX files provided by Maple TA ...

Maple is such a useful and wonderful sorftware, but,

coud you make the classic worksheet compatible with 64bits?

There are packages (grtensor) that do not run on the new worksheet.

   The recent flow of spam into MaplePrimes gave an opportunity to recall some pages fallen out of our memory: interesting questions, deep answers, and rich in content posts. It suggested me the following idea which I would like to discuss with the  MP members. Maybe, it would be reasonable to create a new heading "The best of MaplePrimes" in MaplePrimes. For example, every month experts choose a few candidates to be included in "The best of MP". Then the...

Each of my two previous two blog posts (Maple Gems, More Maple Gems) contained five "gems" from my Little Red Book of Maple Magic, a red ring-binder in which I record...