As many here know, Gaston Gonnet is a co-founder of Maple.  SIAM, in its History of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing project, has now published a very long interview with Gaston.  For those who like a good yarn, as well as details of the history of Maple and Maplesoft, it makes for fascinating reading.

My favourite quotes are:

I have just completed a new update to the site that allows me to disable the new WYSYWIG editor for specific users. Users cannot make this change themselves at the moment, an administrator must make the change for them.

If you would like the editor disabled, please use the contact form to send me a message.

they seem to have disappeared!

Something strange happens when you try to plot this:

implicitplot([y = 1/18*(3*x+1)^2/x], x = 1/4 .. 1/2, y = 0..10);

If you change the y range so that it is, say 1, the wabbles in the function become smaller, but they are still their.

Why the wables?  I am using Maple 9.
 

For the past few days I was unable to login using either my mapleprimes or maplesoft account information.

Was this happening to anyone else during the recent mapleprimes changes ?

f1 := proc(m, S::set) map(s->`if`(s={1},{m}, s),S); end:

f1(X, {{1}, {2}}); differs from inlined version of the same

f2 := proc(m, S::set) option inline; map(s->`if`(s={1},{m}, s),S); end:

f2(X, {{1}, {2}}); The first non-inlined version f1 is be my opinion correct, but what about the inlined f2?

I am still missing the implementation of the pre and code tags in the new editor. As the editor works now, having to switch back and forth between WYSIWYG view and source view, I feel it puts a higher workload on me than its predecessor did.

Also, I am missing a properly working maple tag: the browser seems to show only a fraction of the image intended. Because of this, for a couple of posts, now, I have left out informative Maple output. That can hardly be the way this site is supposed to work.

Comments have been closed on this post since it has become difficult to follow the many threads of discusson. Please post to the MaplePrimes suggestions forum with any comments that you have on the new site

Should we repost on this forum the comments made on your blog "Welcome to the Updated MaplePrimes" ?

There are a number of facilities in Maple which may be extended. Included amongst those are `type`, `print`, `evalf`, and `latex`. The help-page ?extension_mechanism claims that all the built-in functions allow for extension. It also mentions a few system Library routines such as `verify` (but does not mention `latex`).

There are some descriptions of varying completeness in a few...

I just posted a new poll. Do you have a DVD drive on your primary computer? Maplesoft is considering changing the media we use to distribute our products, and we would like to know what media most of our customers will be able to use.

Searching for something completely different (it sounds almost like Monty Python), yesterday I stumbled over the conversion of trigonometric expressions to radicals, see ?convert,radical, and I became intrigued: would Maple be able to convert cos(2*Pi/17) to radicals? It was not.

Gauss was the first to show that the 17-gon could be constructed using compass and straightedge. The expression 16*cos(2*Pi/17) in terms of radicals can be found at the Wikipedia page Heptadecagon.

Hi

I have just filled up my motherboard with 2 Gb of RAM (from 512Mb) and installed a DVD re-writer to my aging Windows XP(SP2) machine.  It is now lovely and everything seems to work except my Maple 9.5 in Standard view which will no longer start (although in classic it does and seems to work).  I am in my final year at university and using maple heavliy for the final year project so I am relatively desparate at the moment.

I would like to flag the file http://www.mapleprimes.com/viewfile/2101.

Is there a way to flag files similar to the way that posts can be flagged?

This page says that there are five rankings in this table. But there are only four.