I reciently upgraded to maple 12, and am hoping it was not a mistake...  The "problem" is that now xmaple seems to have no clue as to the rules of precedence.  Before the upgrade (I was using 9.5) the expression 5/7*3 evaluated to 15/7 as it should.  Now, xmaple 12 thinks the answer is 5/21.

Is there some sort of download to fix this, or perhaps some "please evaluate using standard rules of precedence" setting I can use so that xmaple 12 is able to do arithmetic at least as well as the old 9.5 version?

 

 

Consider the following simple procedure

>F:=proc(LL::{set(list(integer)), list(list(integer))})
    LL;
 end proc:

 

Now execute this little loop

In a recent post, a Maple user misunderstood what an assignment to f(x) meant. Since this is a common source of confusion, I thought it would be worthwhile to say more about this subject.

What is f(x)?
First, f(x) is a "function application" in Maple. It is f applied to the argument x. It is not really the same as what one thinks of as a function in mathematics. Consider a mathematical function such as sin(x+y). In Maple, this can be represented by an expression sin(x+y) or a procedure proc(x, y) sin(x+y) end proc (which can also be written in "operator form" as (x, y)->sin(x+y)). The expression or the procedure can then be assigned to a name such as g. The mathematical function is then represented by g in Maple, and not by g(x, y). Instead, if g is a procedure, then g(x, y) means "the procedure g called with arguments x and y". The "function" help page explains these concepts in more detail.

What is f(x):=x^2 in 1-d math?
Now let's move on to what f(x) := x^2 means. In 1-d math, this means, "Create a remember table entry for procedure f." This stores the expression x^2 so that when you enter f(x), that expression is automatically retrieved, and you avoid the expense of executing the body of the procedure . Similarly, if you enter f(1) := 5, then the value 5 is automatically returned when you enter f(1). Note that if you subsequently enter f(y), you won't get y^2 returned, unless f was already defined to return y^2 with input y. Remember tables are very useful and are heavily used by some Maple library procedures. However, the majority of Maple users do not need to worry about this feature and can do very useful things in Maple without ever knowing about it.

Maple is missing the 'standard' notation for the cumulative normal distribution and uses the error function instead (for historical reasons I guess).

However that would be quite convenient to read and formulae in a common notation.

But note the mouse-over caption! See www.xkcd.com for todays (June 11, 2008) strip. This will be printed and posted at the door that seperates the Physics Dept. from the Math Dept. at most institutions.

Tim

Hello Everyone,

This is more of a request for clarification than an actual problem:

I have written a procedure that involves multiplication, inversion (using LinearSolve) and eigenvalues/vectors (using Eigenvectors) calculations. The matrices are large (~3600 x 3600), consist of floating point complex numbers, and on occasion I need to hold several in memory at once. Therefore, I want to make sure that all of the calculations (and storage of resulting matrices) are done using double precision, not arbitrary precision, in order to minimise the memory usage.

A recent post asks how to create a Maple permutation iterator, that is, a procedure that, on successive calls, iterates through each permutation of a given input.  I suggested a routine that solved the problem, however, I wasn't satisfied with it.  It was slower than it should be.  Later I suggested an improvement.  Here is another improvement.  It uses the same algorithm (algorithm L, from The Art of Computer Programming, vol. 4, fasicle 2, by Donald E. Knuth) if the input has repeated elements, but uses a different method, algorithm T, ibid., if the input consists of distinct elements.  The sequences of permutations for the two algorithms differ, the second algorithm uses the initial order for the first element and consecutive outputs differ by one transposition.

A random sample of length n drawn from Bernoulli distribution with probability of success prob, that has a correlation c with itself shifted back lag steps, can be generated using following procedure,

SampleWithCorr:=proc(prob::And(numeric,satisfies(c->c>=0 and c<=1)),
lag::posint,c::And(numeric,satisfies(c->c<=1 and c>=-1)),n::posint)
local X,B,S,C,s,i;
uses Statistics;
X:=RandomVariable(Bernoulli(prob));
S:=Sample(X,n);
if n<=lag or s=0 then S else
s:=signum(c);
B:=RandomVariable(Bernoulli(abs(c)));
C:=Sample(B,n-lag);
if s=1 then 
for i from lag+1 to n do
if C[i-lag]=1 then S[i]:=S[i-lag] fi od;
else for i from lag+1 to n do
if C[i-lag]=1 then S[i]:=1-S[i-lag] fi od
fi fi; S end:

A:=Matrix(2,3,1,datatype=float[8]);
                             [1.    1.    1.]
                        A := [              ]
                             [1.    1.    1.]

ArrayTools:-AddAlongDimension(A);

                               [2., 2.]

B:=Matrix(3,10,1,datatype=float[8]);

             [1. , 1. , 1. , 1. , 1. , 1. , 1. , 1. , 1. , 1.]
             [                                               ]
        B := [1. , 1. , 1. , 1. , 1. , 1. , 1. , 1. , 1. , 1.]
             [                                               ]

let the elements of each of the following sets

1. A or B

2. ( B or C)'

3. ( D - C)'

4 (A' or B' ) - ( A or B)

5. ( C and D)' or B

6. P (A)

 

Can anyone explain the following (in Maple 11):

>maptype(set,evalf,[2.2222]);

 returns   [2.2]

whereas

>evalf([2.2222]);

 returns [2.2222]

My reading of the help page is that if [2.2222]  is not of type set (which it isn't) then maptype should return evalf([2.2222]);   It would seem that in this context, evalf is acting as evalf[2] independent of the prevailing Digits.

Some time ago, I confronted the usefullness of the Table element of Maplets, and found out it was something marely to show data that was known on design time, no posibility to dinamicly inject data on it for example on a result table after a process, but in the past days I met MatrixBuilder, on the Student, LinearAlbegra package, and I wonder first if that is a maplet, and second, if that is a table element, I tried to crack on the source code of it, but no info came out.

Someone knows what is this window? or if someone is able to crack the source can show me the table part?

I'd like to suggest that someone with administrative access monitor this site on non-business days. Quite a few times now this site has gone down on a Friday evening and not been available until the following Monday morning. Or if this is actually scheduled maintenance then perhaps that could be announced.

 

i have a computer with windows Vista and i saw that maple 7 doesn't work on vista.

so,I wonder if maple 7 worksheets and .mpl files can be read on maple 12 which works with Vista.

 

When you highlight an equation in Maple and drag it to another program, a word processor for example, a small image of it is produced. It would be great to be able to select the format and resolution of these images. Specifically, it would be nice to be able to choose from jpg, gif, or a pdf clipping, and to choose compression levels and resolution, whether or not to include a background mask (or just the text itself), and how much margin to add to the clipping.